Word: ark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rains were light in Northern California when the creative writing class of Willits High School selected its group project. Nevertheless, it decided to re-create Noah's ark complete with animals. The students exercised their writing abilities in letters soliciting help for the project. (All were signed Noah Lamechson, Noah being, of course, the son of Lamech.) Eventually they put together a 21-page booklet recounting their experiences. Entitled You Can't Build an Ark in Mendocino County, it shows that the class learned at least one lesson: if Noah were around today, chances are he would drown...
Despite the setbacks, the students have not given up. Going by the biblical statement that the flood began "in the second month, the seventeenth day," the class at Willits High still has about three months to prove that you can build an ark in Mendocino County...
Simes attacked Sen. William J. Fulbright (D-Ark.) for advocating U.S. interference in Israel's domestic affairs and contrasted that stand with Fulbright's opposition to a "detente with civil rights" that would mean "interference in Soviet domestic affairs...
Playwright Thornton Wilder is the good old white magician who once had us all handing chairs down theater aisles to feed a stage fire and save the suburb of Excelsior, N.J., from the ice age. He successfully launched Noah's ark from the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City-despite the fact that Mrs. Noah wouldn't let it shove off without Cain as well as Abel. Novelist Thornton Wilder has re-created 18th century Peru (The Bridge of San Luis Rey), and ancient Rome (The Cabala). In Our Town, he made Grover's Corners, N.H., into...
...group of farmers associated with ACORN expressed those fears Monday in petitions to AP&L President Reeves Ritchie, presented to the utility's England, Ark., office...