Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, still a bit astonished by it all, Editorialist Soth was off touring the U.S.S.R. with a group of Americans, while twelve Soviet agricultural bosses thrashed happily through Iowa's tall-corn country - shoulder deep in corn, hogs, hospitality and home cooking...
...forest, blue smoke from smoldering brush fires hangs lazily in the hot, still air. In a raw new clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar empire: the Blind River uranium development...
...sudden fear that makes him weasel out of a flight with an inept pilot, an insensitive squadron commander who lives by the book. The girl he loves is all the girls men loved in outposts of the war-vague, ephemeral, but the memory of "life and compassion, and ... the deep gentle warmth of her surrendering to him." Yet, devoid of identity, Lieut. Ripault remains stubbornly alive. There were thousands like him; he takes on stature as he suggests their struggle to survive. And like those others, the navigator comes back to finish the fight. Because he is attracted...
...there was modern air cooling and refrigeration. In homes, offices and resorts, men found. they could live, work and play in air-conditioned comfort and move about in air-conditioned cars. Big machines and modern techniques met other problems, from the drilling of deep wells and the mass production of swimming pools to the erection in double-quick time of whole towns, planned to order...
Author Goyen is nettled when people confuse him with the lunatic fringe of highbrow Dixie. He insists he is a true Texan whose "themes . . . have no affinity with the eccentricities of Southern personality or Gothic bizarreries." He has never lived in the Deep Southern states. "only passed through them on a train." Just the same, so susceptible an author should not take such a risk again...