Word: aridity
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Some Palestinian tells are 70 ft. thick and contain dozens of different layers of debris. Obviously little can be learned about them by looking only at their surfaces; they are the proper hunting grounds of diggers, who work back through the slow accretion of years. But in arid regions, where the tells are bare of vegetation, they erode faster, and the desert wind carries their dust away. In Jordan and southern Palestine there are tells that have worn to ground level. Only their potsherds have survived, all ages and types mingled together, their edges rounded like pebbles on a beach...
...medieval bestiaries, the habits of birds, beasts and reptiles proclaimed the glory of God. In this strange and fitful collection of short stories, Italian Author Tommaso Landolfi has created a kind of 20th century bestiary in which the animals speak not to the godhead in man but to the arid reaches of the human heart...
...year ago, when they left Rio de Janeiro for their "duty stations" in a long, arid river basin 500 miles away, the volunteers were advised to look up the local officials of the Commissao do Vale do Sao Francisco (CVSF). The CVSF, a federal agency charged with developing the river basin, was supposed to supply Brazilian technician counterparts to the volunteers in each station...
...last installment has been paid on the $167 million indemnification to the former owners. And now Pemex is rapidly expanding into the profitable new fields of fertilizers, plastics and synthetic rubber-all from petrochemical byproducts of oil processing. From the jungles south of Veracruz to the arid, sun-baked flats of Reynosa just across the U.S. border, 18 petrochemical plants have gone up since 1959, and another 22 are abuilding. By 1966, says one Pemex official, petrochemicals will be the country's second biggest industry-surpassed only by oil itself...
...line like "Go down, Kennedy, way down in Georgia la-aa-and" is arid and unmoving, and certainly these songs include a lot that is unoriginal drivel. But the same can be said of any body of folk music. After time and taste sort out the songs that integration in the U.S. is marching to, one called Bull Connor's Jail is likely to last. Written last spring by Guy Carawan, a highly regarded California folk singer arrested at a Birmingham protest meeting, it truly says...