Word: aridity
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With regard to your comment that the gains from the Aswan Dam have been swallowed up by Egypt's population, it should be noted that this project was not an unmitigated benefit. Although the dam made possible the cultivation of 1.3 million acres of formerly arid land, it stands accused of several disasters. The Egyptian Mediterranean fisheries have been virtually wiped out because the nutritional sediment washing downstream that formerly sustained sea life is now silting up the dam. In addition, salt water is moving upstream in the Delta, eroding farm land or making it saline. There has been...
...faculty and an even larger number of greasy, grasping nonentities, Harvard still benefits from a perhaps undeservedly high percentage of serious, dedicated teachers and doers. An engrossing 45 minutes spent in conversation with one of the David Riesmans of this world is more than worth the price of many arid hours on the banks of the Charles. And then there are absolutely wrong-headed but scintillating scholars like radical Duncan Kennedy at the Law School. Fellows like Duncan may have got it all backwards philosophically, but they know their subjects and their radicalism has not shorn them...
THIRD PARADOX: Barry Lyndon is obviously a costume drama but in a much more literal sense than any movie easily dismissed by that contemptuous phrase. Many of the clothes are not costumes at all but authentic antiques. The equally real interiors arid landscapes-every foot of the film was shot on location -are intended to function as something more than exotic delights for the eye. Close scrutiny of the settings reveals not only the character of the people who inhabit them but the spirit of the entire age as Kubrick understands...
...avenue-like Street of the Dead-as a ceremonial center inhabited largely by priests and their retainers. Now, new discoveries suggest that between A.D. 400 and 700, Teotihuacan was literally the Big Apple of Mesoamerica, the focus of a far-flung empire that stretched from the arid plains of central Mexico to the mountains of Guatemala...
...Joseph Machebeuf, later Bishop of Denver. After decades of research, Paul Horgan, novelist and Pulitzer-prizewinning historian (Great River), has attempted to separate the fictive from the actual. His triumph is due as much to a sense of place as to discernment of character. In his account, the shimmering, arid plateaus and the indomitable Gallic spirit are as palpable as they were in the novel-and as compelling...