Word: barrens
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...sees history as Carlyle did -a panorama of "men in buff coats and breeches, with color in their cheeks, with passions in their stomachs, and the idioms, features and vitalities of very men." The romantic influence waned toward the end of the century, and most historians bowed to the barren discipline of Leopold von Ranke's Prussian school of historiography. Under Ranke's technical, "scientific" approach to history, absolute impartiality was imperative, and readability was sacrificed to research. The monograph, freighted with footnotes, was triumphant, and out of the graduate schools poured a profusion of dreary doctoral theses...
...Richard Peck, 44, is a Princeton graduate, the father of three children and the owner of a Cincinnati advertising agency. He has spent the past 16 months trying to find the famed Lost Dutchman gold mine in Arizona's barren Superstition Mountain range. "The more I read about the Lost Dutchman," he recalls, "the more I kept coming back to it. Finally, I was sure I knew where the Lost Dutchman was. I was going to tear this thing open. I thought I was going to have it wrapped up in two weeks." So far his search has cost...
...experiments with the language of art and avoids all of the feeling. While fascinating mechanically it remains barren of emotion. It rebels against expressionism just as "Pop" -- with its emphasis upon hygienic reality and arbitrary selection of subject matter -- repudiates abstraction. This opposition to the expression of emotion and to the aesthetic selection of subject material is fundamentally anti...
...placate the locals, Somivac last week nervously assigned four additional farms to native Corsicans, rather than to the repatriates for whom they had originally been intended. Somivac's tourist counterpart, Setco, has already built four new hotels and is carving yacht basins along Corsica's bright, barren beaches-the most beautiful in the Mediterranean. The island's feral beauty has drawn visitors in increasing numbers-443,000 last year (up 20% from...
...thin red line of empire was still unraveling last week. This time the scene of the fray was Aden, at the southern tip of Arabia, a barren 75-sq.-mi. crown colony that owes the relative prosperity of its 250,000 citizens largely to the fact that it is the second largest of Britain's dwindling overseas bases. That is at least one too many for Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who for two years has backed a resistance movement to heave the British...