Word: beckoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within 20 minutes the road suddenly veers to the left, and the earth seems to fall away abruptly into a bottomless chasm. Black craggy walls slope sharply down into the bowels of this deep crater, where shiny steel skyscrapers beckon mystically in the clear sunny air. Spread out below and beyond, extending almost to the snow-capped Andean peaks in the distance, sparkles La Paz, a booming city seemingly dropped from space into a lunar landscape...
...shelves are strange labels: Granola, mung beans, Tiger's Milk, lecithin, all at nonsensical prices. Vitamin E, he learns, is expected to cure everything but the common cold; Vitamin C takes care of that. Adelle Davis has become the Brillat-Savarin of the counterculture. Her self-help books beckon from the paperback rack: Let's Get Well, Let's Have Healthy Children, Let's Eat Right To Keep...
...after the Waltham returns were posted, McGovern launched into his concession speech and everyone turned toward the television sets. The crowd remained quiet until McGovern said. "We do not rally to the support of policies that we deplore, but we do love this country and we will continue to beckon it to a higher standard." Everyone cheered. As soon as McGovern finished speaking, Drinan emerged from seclusion, strode to the front of the Tiara Room in his clerical garb, and gave a short, emotional speech...
...south Dakota senator mentioned the role of the "loyal opposition" and remarked. "We do not rally to the support of policies that we deplore, but we do love this country and we will continue to beckon it to a higher standard...
...walks into a multimirrored bathroom of the 40-room mansion he owns in fashionable Greenwich, Conn. The mansion also sports swastika flags on many of the ceilings, as well as a man-size doll hanging by its neck in the ballroom. When concert tours and promotional appearances do not beckon, Alice can usually be found in his Greenwich "pad," curled up in an armchair with a six-pack of beer, seeking further inspiration from...