Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back from doting on your troubles, and once you've seen something of the world, you will recognize foreign places as instances of human range. The logic of Athens, the fortitude of London, the grace of Paris -- a city for every facet of the mind. He would have you connect travel with an appreciation of the past as well. In Jerusalem recently, he walked the Old City, brushing thousands of years of faith and murder. He would like you to see yourself as history, to wonder what you would have shouted, or at whom, as Jesus struggled...
...tapped a vein. A section of what used to be called the counterculture desired a guru, and here he was in the flesh. By 1975, after the establishment in Boulder of the Naropa Institute, a liberal arts college, his imprimatur was everywhere. One could stick pins in a map, connect the dots and, with apologies to Amtrak, call it the Angst Express. The confused came to be made sound...
Illinois: Lincoln-Morton Link. Already under construction, the 31-mile highway will connect Interstates 74 and 55, cutting 40 miles off the trip from Peoria to St. Louis. Backed by House Minority Leader Robert Michel, who represents the area, the stretch would provide an alternative to Route 121, two lanes of inadequate winding blacktop on which highballing truckers terrify motorists. Total price tag: $135 million, of which the highway bill provides $17 million...
Boston: Central Artery/Harbor Tunnel. The I-93 north-south expressway and the two tunnels that connect downtown to Logan International Airport are congested eight hours a day. Massive infusions of money into the mass-transit system, boat shuttles and airport helicopter services have failed to reduce traffic. Solution: widen and lower to ground level the now elevated distressway and build a third harbor tunnel. Price: $3.1 billion. Federal share: $2.5 billion...
Isaac Bashevis Singer tells the story of an aged and poor Jewish shoemaker who arrives in America to join his now affluent sons. Despite his sons` generosity and care, the old man is bewildered by the strangeness of their world. He cannot connect the cosmopolitan Americans he sees before him with the young boys he once trained to make shoes by hand in their cottage home...