Word: densest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese are dismally housed, for the most part, with one of the world's densest urban populations. Yet in Shanghai or Canton, there is little sense of the tensions and frictions so close to the surface of American, European or other Asian cities. One explanation is that the citizenry is governed by a public ethic that was not evident before the 1949 Revolution, or Liberation, as the Chinese prefer to call it. If, for example, a young person comes home with a wristwatch or a transistor radio that has obviously been stolen or otherwise illicitly acquired, he must...
...West. Perhaps none of the scenery through which it flows is more impressive than Idaho's Snake River Birds of Prey Natural Area, a 33-mile stretch of water bordered on both sides by high-rise towers of volcanic rock and sheer sandstone cliffs, and inhabited by the densest nesting population of raptors, or birds of prey, anywhere in the world. Golden eagles perch on inaccessible crags; prairie and peregrine falcons launch themselves from cliff faces and soar into the high, crystalline desert sky. Eleven other species of raptor, from the diminutive robin-size kestrel, or sparrow hawk...
...slavery was America's original sin. Roots, for all its soap opera, sex and violence, seems to have had a certain expiatory effect. From the various mythic provinces of TV, which may be the densest core of American imagination now, are gathered a virtuous and likable group of heroes: Pa Cartwright from the Ponderosa, Lou Grant from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, affable Sergeant Enright from MacMillan and Wife and sweet Sandy Duncan from the apartment upstairs. But in Roots, they all turn counterfeit-treacherous, violent and contemptible. Only one white, Old George, is sympathetic. The blacks are noble...
...cried, 'This is the most beautiful toy in the world.' " So said French Theater Director Patrice Chéreau, 31, as he contemplated the prospect of staging the centennial celebration of the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner's longest, densest and most puzzling creation. The results were on display last week at the somber brick Festspielhaus, which Wagner himself designed, and they brought on a storm of booing deep and raw. A few people both booed and clapped at once. Shouting matches broke out between husbands and wives in splendid...
Buckley soon learned the U.N. folkways: that the Soviet Union's Yakov Malik has "a deeply cultivated propensity for lying"; that the U.N.'s reputation as "the densest collection of oratorical bores in the history of the world" owes most to Saudi Arabia's Jamil Baroody; that racism at the U.N. is what white does to black, never the reverse. He found that the U.S. is excessively concerned about not giving diplomatic offense and that around the U.N., the convention is simply to ignore Soviet infractions against the organization's stated ideals. As a result official...