Word: asphalting
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...brought tents and bedrolls for their 24-hour vigil, were on hand for the big show. For hour after hour, roaring wide-open on the straightaways, the cars spun around the 8.6-mile oval course, stopping occasionally for fuel or tire changes. Nighttime mist hampered visibility, but the asphalt road, lightly sanded to prevent slipping in wet weather, never became treacherous...
...Generous Americans. So far the American invasion numbers 4,000 construction workers and 3,000 blue-uniformed airmen. Thirty-ton earth loaders, compactors and asphalt layers are changing the landscape, within sight of Arab and Berber shepherds who tend their flocks and think their own thoughts. The French administration welcomes the advent of U.S. capital and enterprise, but insists on keeping local wages down to check inflation. Many French bureaucrats, businessmen, speculators and colons (plantation owners) grumble that the generous, kindly Americans will spoil the inhabitants...
...Asphalt and Desire" has all the elements of an excellent novel of frustration and bewilderment. The heroine, Iris Leavis, an off-spring of the Bronx Levins and a newly-hatched graduate of Hunter College, is certainly complicated enough for a modern heroine. And her situation abounds in conventional and unconventional value-systems which she can reject with a minimum of hesitation and a maximum of insecurity...
...dealt with an important and fertile topic, this time with the insecurity accompanying loss or rejection of values or allegiances. But, as in the earlier work, he has drawn attention away from the first-person, with whom he is presumably concerned, by his superior handling of objective narrative. Nevertheless "Asphalt and Desire" remains a stimulating commentary on the tribulations of a girls whose ambitions, nurtured by college life, outrun the realities of her social position...
...great city is the center of the Flight ... It is built like a fortress against the heavens . . . The houses stick to the ground by means of asphalt lest they should sink into the earth when the heavens thrust against them. From roof to roof the wires stretch like barbed-wire entanglements. Now the streets are mere crevasses between the houses, emergency exits for those who flee. But in many places they are broad. These are the ways of advance prepared for the attack against the heavens. And the factory chimneys are like the barrels of guns...