Word: walting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...History," he wrote years ago, "is a mass-invention, the day dream of a race." It was the American day dream that especially fascinated John Dos Passos. Like a darkling Walt Whitman, he sang of a sprawling, intricate, in many ways desolate, industrial America. Dos Passos had to invent his own form to contain his vision. U.S.A. was a montage of deft biographies, Joycean interior monologues, narrative fictions and fascinating oddments, headlines and snatches of popular songs. His prose-poetry was as varied and fragmented as his pluralistic America...
Members of the family were tied up, then released in the evening. The children watched Walt Disney, and one of the members of the family described Gilday as "pleasant...
...Walt Quigg had run through the same hole for 40 yards against the Crimson on the second half kickoff...
...prodding of the Center, Walt Rostow and Henry Rowen persuaded the American negotiator at Geneva, Llewelyn Thompson, to propose the "hot line" to the Russian delegate; the proposal was accepted ("Neither is known as being a dove," Schelling said of Rostow and Rowen, "but both were very strong for arms arrangements with the Russians. I would guess Rowen did more to keep nuclear weapons out of Western Europe than anyone you can name...
...small additional rise this fall. Among those most affected are young people, who face difficulty getting hired at all. One unexpected result is that the Marines are attracting higher-quality volunteers. "They get out of college and can't find a job, so they join," says General Lewis Walt, assistant commandant. "We hope we can keep some of them...