Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into Neshoba County to join in the search (the White House, through a mistake, at first announced that the sailors were marines, bringing screams of anguish from segregationists about another federal invasion of the South). Armed only with sticks to protect themselves against the water moccasins and rattlers that abound in the area, the sailors tucked and taped up their pants legs to ward off mosquitoes and chiggers, began poking under every bush and peering down every abandoned well...
...moves as sure-footed as ever through an intricate plot. Fiddlersburg, a town in Tennessee, is about to disappear under the waters of a federal dam; its citizens are thus caught at a time when they are most inclined to be articulate about themselves. Preachers, philosophers and local grotesques abound. But although Fiddlersburg has been condemned to death, the sentence does not (Samuel Johnson to the contrary) result in wonderfully concentrating its collective mind. On the contrary, an aeolian cavern of Southern garrulity is opened up and the air is thick with all the Confederate clichés about honor...
While Stone has manipulated the cramped spaces as best he can, he is more in his element with the interior decoration. Macassar ebony, solid bronze doors, parqueted floors, anodized aluminum sequins, red pile carpets, even potted palms abound (see color page). Two of the museum's nine floors are surrendered to an espresso and cocktail lounge and a 52-seat restaurant called the Gauguin Room. And since Hartford contends that a museum is "really like a church," there is a 3,500-pipe Aeolian-Skinner organ...
...indeed, for a man whose skin is both white and thick, the land of apartheid can, in a sense, be a land of unlimited opportunity. Despite Afro-Asian efforts to cut off its trade, gold-and-diamond-rich South Africa is bursting with prosperity, and jobs abound. Recently a Johannesburg auto firm conducted a monthlong, nationwide advertising campaign for mechanics, did not get a single reply...
RAYMOND MINTZ-Rehn, 36 East 61st. Mintz's landscapes abound with bold, nearly abstract forms, symbols of perpetual life and decay, but two figure paintings of excruciating delineation prove he has a realist's eye. Through...