Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe and brought unusually warm and sunny weather. Meanwhile, cool air suddenly began to flow from the Soviet Union toward the Mediterranean. A low-pressure system over Northern Africa created a bowling-alley effect, directing the moisture-laden air mass straight at Tunisia. On the Tunisian-Algerian border, the Atlas Mountains blocked the air and caused the rain to fall. The mountains also set up a swirling air flow in which clouds gathered up new water...
High on a plateau in the Middle Atlas Mountains stands a rambling complex of rough-hewn rock buildings. These days the buildings are quiet; overhead, crows caw and buzzards scream; grass creeps through chinks in the pavement. Only three soldiers, stationed there to prevent looting, are now camped where a community of Benedictine monks so recently thrived. The monastery of Toumliline, a hopeful experiment of Christian witness in Moslem Morocco, is closed, probably forever...
...breaking off of memory, is not a Christian innocence, not piety, but a form which affirmation takes. "Innocence," Ungaretti writes, "we have learned of what it's made. It has appeared before us, and kept us beneath its still vast wings, through the disorders of our lives." JAMES ATLAS...
...officers of the Harvard Advocate for 1969 are James R. Atlas '71 of Dunster House and Evanston, III., president: Spencer B. Marx '71 of Quincy House and Scarsdale, N.Y., managing editor; Julian R. Birnbaum '70 of Adams House and Caldwell, Idaho, business manager; Margaret J. Rizza '71 of Cabot Hall and New Britain, Conn. and Richard H. Rosen '71 of Adams House and Highland Park, III., poetry editors; Douglas A. Booth '71 of Dunster House and Beverly Hills, Calif., prose editor; Sarah Warren '70 of 103 Walker Street and Nahant, art editor; Elizabeth A. Campbell '71 of 56 Linnaean Street...
...without the assistance of kif, Morocco is a delight. In winter, a venturesome visitor can swim in the morning off the beach at Essaouira on the Atlantic, lunch on kefta (skewered minced steak with herbs) in Marrakesh, and ski the afternoon away at Oukaïmeden in the High Atlas Mountains. He can be back in Marrakesh in plenty of time to catch the show at Ksar el Hamra (the Red House) and dine on magnificent bstilla (a flaky, cinnamon-sprinkled pie stuffed with pigeon livers and eggs). He can accompany this with a bottle of Boulaouane rose...