Word: canyoneering
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Miller's next step was to find out whether the sites could have been occupied by Indians in A.D. 1054. At one site (White Mesa) he found a few potsherds that probably date back 900 years. At the other site (Navaho Canyon), a deep cut in the canyon floor exposed a great number that are as old or older...
...occasion for all the special effects was the world premiere of Ferde (Grand Canyon Suite} Grofé's latest effort as a musical local-colorist, Hudson River Suite, in Washington, D.C.'s leafy Carter Barren Amphitheater. Its five movements describe 1) The River, with quickened tempo as it surges past Bear Mountain, and broad majesty as it reaches the Palisades; 2) Hendrick Hudson, the intrepid explorer, portrayed in horns and woodwinds and thundering percussion, often wistful because of his tragic end; 3) Rip Van Winkle, a clever description of the Washington Irving tale, in which Rip whistles...
Moving northward from Manhattan's Times Square through the garish canyon of Seventh Avenue, the traveler finds a varied evening cacophony. Bus engines whine. Subway trains roar through sidewalk gratings. On a corner a Salvation Army band pleads Onward! Christian Soldiers. Suddenly, through an open door, comes a shattering crash and a high-pitched wail, and a competing hymn bounces through the tortured air: When the Saints Go Marching...
Rebecca West, firm, formidable, and possessed of a frown like a side of the Grand Canyon, likes to see her nouns buttressed by stout adjectives like "fatuous," "obscene" and "idiotic"; even "bitchery" is in her vocabulary. At worst, her hardbitten prose is that of an obsessive governess threatening children with hellfire; at best, it expresses an energetic mind absorbed in the pursuit of common sense and justice. In A Train of Powder Author West examines with Old Testament sternness some recent efforts to bring malefactors before...
Andresen led a field of 77 racers over the tricky 79-gate course on the Grand Canyon Trail...