Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right below Gate 16 in the giant slalom, the Hudson foams into a fury of white water. A boulder, an obstacle that was a legend to the contestants, rises 2 ft. out of the river, churning the currents into a whirling eddy. All afternoon the competitors, young and old, hurtled down, striving to swerve their boats around it The better racers changed directions nimbly; the novices-faces distorted by fear -dug frantically at the water...
...another drawing, the monster has become an enormous furry rabbit. "The rabbit is as armored as the dragon," Steinberg points out. "It has the impenetrable armor of fat fluff. It is invincibly sweet. There are, you see, two sorts of danger. One is being hit by a giant boulder: the direct assault of the world. The other is being overcome by a mountain of fluff, or molasses. The softness is as dreadful as the hardness...
Patterson was the oldest child of a wealthy Denver executive, and a graduate of a private school south of Denver. Two years older than Jim, he was a sophomore pre-med at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) when he won the Telluride contest. Bob was a tremendous skier, and well-known in Boulder as an excellent hang-glider pilot. He was bright, and although he did not aspire to academic success, he respected it and sometimes achieved...
Shortly after Bob's death, Mary Lyn and Jim decided to organize a memorial service. On July 11, about 9 a.m. on a Sunday morning, they held a service in a natural amphitheater atop Flagstaff Mountain, overlooking Boulder. It was a beautiful day, the sky an unmarred shell of deep blue, the sunlight too bright, etching the outline of the city against the verdant farmland to the east. More than a 100 people, all Bob's friends, attended...
...that the New Orientalism's importance lies in showing all forms of worship to have universal roots. Again and again Cox stresses that devotional techniques may be almost identical (Thus Benedictine monks in Vermont sit and meditate in the same position as the Buddhists at Boulder, "Tibet-in-the-Rockies") but the underlying theology is drastically different...