Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dwindling wildlife. Now Patrick is teaching conservation to 63 black African students currently enrolled at the College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka, in northern Tanzania. "I like the work," he says, "because the Africans who come to Mweka are drawn, in ever-increasing numbers, by some deep-rooted sense of mission. They are the ones who will nurture what is left of Africa's long-ravaged game populations...
...most bristling receptions was at the headquarters of the San Francisco State College Black Student Union, where minds were closed even to angry give and take. "There are only two places the media people have been at," announced one of the hosts. "Racism and nowhere." That was as deep as that particular dialogue ever went. The meeting was of value only as a measure of the consuming bitterness of the extremists. The Oakland Black Panthers went even further, canceling their meeting at the last moment unless they were offered...
Awesome Views. Shots of the moon taken from Apollo 10 in its 69-mile-high orbit clearly showed that some areas of the moon have a brownish tint, confirming the astronauts' description. There were awesome views of rugged mountains, long canyons and deep craters with white walls glinting starkly in the sunlight. By contrast, the cloud-swirled earth looked warm and hospitable as it was seen rising above the moon's horizon. Shots of alternate landing sites in the Sea of Tranquility gave support to Stafford's observation that they were "very smooth, like wet clay...
...traveling portrait painter himself. Yet as he rested by the side of the road between jobs, he found himself powerfully drawn to the wilderness surrounding him. "These scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted," he noted, "affect the mind with more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them, the consequent associations are of God, the Creator; they are his undefiled works." Cole decided to become a landscape painter instead of a portraitist...
...with his painter's eye, a countryside that was indeed romantic, with deep gorges, beetling cliffs, and tumbling torrents. As a professional, Cole rejoiced because it was also a landscape that-unlike the more familiar Alps and the more picturesque Italian ruins-was at the time undiscovered by artists. "No Tivolis, Ternis, Mont Blancs, hackneyed and worn by the daily pencils of hundreds," he wrote with delight, "but primeval forests and virgin lakes...