Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earth's resources. Sauer was equally comfortable discussing ancient literature, leading expeditions to Baja California, or interviewing small farmers about soil erosion. His best-known books, Northern Mists and The Early Spanish Main, contended that Irish monks reached North America before Leif Ericson, and that Christopher Columbus had been an unstable governor of the West Indies, setting policies that nearly exterminated the region's Indians...
...eyes were black and fierce below the camouflage of little-girl bangs. They seemed curiously separate-not quite a matching pair. By the age of 13 she had reached a height of 5 ft. 8½ in., and lest the home-town folks of Columbus, Ga., think she was one of them, Lula Carson (as she was baptized) wore knee socks and tennis shoes while the other Southern teenie-belles were wearing heels. The opening lines of Carson McCullers' most famous work, The Member of the Wedding, can be read as her epitaph: "She belonged to no club...
Alas, Virginia Spencer Carr is capable of ungainly paraphrase: "Carson quivered inside and yearned for acceptance." An associate professor of English at Columbus College in McCullers' birthplace, she spends the bare minimum of her 600 pages analyzing McCullers' texts. Instead, Author Carr vainly seeks to characterize the Creative Process: "She sank again into her pillows and gazed off with her great dark eyes into an imagined land called up at will...
...Yale had released a map purporting to show that the Vikings discovered America. "They came out with this story just before Columbus Day, and we haven't forgotten it," Vellucci declaimed...
...which means that come the final week of June. When most will have been three weeks departed from Cambridge, the linksters will depart for Columbus, Ohio and a rendezvous with the same sand traps and water hazards that once caused Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf a whole lot of grief...and bogeys...