Word: aspenization
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...Paul's Church was built in Aspen, 60 miles across the mountains, when Aspen was a booming mine town instead of the ski-and-culture resort it is today. In 1908, after the boom's collapse had emptied it, the church was moved to Marble, which was having a boom of its own. St. Paul's belonged to the Episcopalians, but after Marble's once famous quarries*closed down, in 1941, the Episcopal Church stopped using it, and other denominations - Roman Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, United Brethren, Dutch Reformed, Mor mons - worshiped there from time...
Next morning, after dressing in the chilling air, they had their breakfast and, carrying light packs, traversed upward through thickets of aspen and pine and cedar and wild flowers. Now and then they recrossed the stream and stopped to drink, and after an hour, high in the mountain, they found the waterfall that fed the stream below. Clambering across a rockslide, they tucked some beer into the water, built a fire and cooked their lunch. When they returned to their camp, they stripped and plunged with agonized cries into a lake cold enough to recall Joyce's scrotum-tightening...
...afternoons, Painter made the martinis (while Conrad "held the vermouth a bit downwind"). With Painter playing the harmonica and Conrad the guitar, the children sang till suppertime and then climbed into their sleeping bags. On other days, the Painters and Conrads walked among the ponderosa pine and the aspen trees, past berries and pink dianthus and lupine and wild roses, yarrow and wild strawberry and kitten ears and vetch. Though most campers swear that the forest is a world of green-muffled silence, it is actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water birds, the chit...
...setting of garish sports shirts, pastel shorts, and knobby knees pinkening in the summer sun, 500 designers, teachers and admen gathered in Colorado last week for the eleventh annual Aspen International Design Conference. The theme of the conference was "Man-The Problem Solver." But if the delegates expected comforting words on man's deductive powers, they were brought up short by Designer Bernard Rudofsky, chief architect of U.S. exhibits at the Brussels Fair and guest director of exhibitions at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...made Phi Beta Kappa, took his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. In 1948 he returned to Utah as a philosophy professor, became dean of the liberal arts and sciences college and later vice president. McMurrin showed particular skill in leading summer seminars among businessmen and educators at Aspen, Colo. "Inevitably," says one participant, "the consensus was in accord with McMurrin's views...