Word: decays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tales of treasure-hunting, of Tomacito, a New Mexican Thumbling, of drunken burros, spice the book. More sombre are the tales of disappearing Amerindian tribes and customs, but they are stoically told. The Zia Indians, in their decay, became so poverty-stricken, so skinny, that other Indians called them the "hungry ones." The "hungry ones" called back: "Fat Indians dance slowly...
Reave Thurso, with his mother and lamed brother Mark, lives on the coastal farm left by his father who killed himself when he could not make it pay. His limestone quarry buildings lie in decay; only a rusty cable, stretched across the canyon over the farm, hums in the air in memory...
...withal . . . human labor is not saved thereby." Knowledge to design and manage the machines becomes the leaders' technical monopoly. But as the led must always work still harder, they begin to strike, revolt. Mutiny even among the leaders spreads against the machine. In this mutiny technics will decay, Western civilization be destroyed...
Amerindian Black Elk was born in 1863, in time to see and take part in much of the fighting that drove his race off the free earth into government reservations to decay. Treaty after treaty the Indians drew up with the Wasichus (white men) who took what land they wanted, promised the rest should remain Indian "as long as grass should grow and water flow. You can see that it is not the grass and the water that have forgotten...
There has long been a feeling that the departments of Economics, Government, and History in order to fulfill completely their purpose should offer at least one course in current events and current problems. Empire, decay, and revolution, the clash of arms, the fall of thrones, are apt to assume the color of recollection only, a reminiscent haze of things past, untouched by any parallel with these soberer days. To view the past through the small end of the telescope, through the present, would be a refreshing aid in the drive for historical proportion...