Word: castaneda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would mark a new turning point in the stalemate with Iran. Some American officials saw his departure as a first step toward a settlement; others predicted that it might provoke the Iranians to carry out their threat to put the American hostages on trial. Then, Mexican Foreign Secretary Jorge Castaneda abruptly announced that the Shah would not be allowed to settle in Mexico. It was a stunning turnabout. Only two weeks earlier, Castaneda had promised that the Shah would receive "a pleasant welcome" in Mexico...
This sense of a miraculous, beneficent clarity, of vision ecstatically distributed between the near and the far, has permeated American nature writing from Henry David Thoreau to Carlos Castaneda. It is as central to Adams' photography as it is to O'Keeffe's painting, or further back to the landscapes of Yosemite and Yellowstone painted by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and their followers in the 19th century. An entire tradition of seeing is inherent in the word wilderness; it is essentially romantic. As Szarkowski has observed, "Adams' pictures are perhaps anachronisms. They are perhaps the last confident and deeply felt...
This newest burst of creative activity at Woodstock would seem to lend support to those, from Coleridge to Castaneda, who believe that nature's creative force springs from very specific spots on earth. Some forty miles north of the actual site of the festival that burnt its name onto the map, Woodstock might be any sleepy little town at the base of the Catskills, but for the amazing variety of artistic spirits that seem to gravitate there. The tourists shops and gaudy "art" galleries that sprang up at the end of the 60's (actually a few years earlier, when...
...well known for making mayhem in California prisons. "It don't sound right to say I enjoy being here, but it don't bother me like it did before," says Felix Padia, a Folsom inmate who has been meditating for 17 months. Says Convicted Dope Peddler Willie Castaneda, 55: "I am even beginning to like myself...
...Second Ring of Power, Castaneda...