Word: desert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible to be deeply moved by the endless American plains, and the settlements defiantly set down in the midst of this vastness, by the coast of Maine or the Rockies or the desert. But that is not loving America. Loving America means loving what it stands for as a political and social vision. Although the great American epic is the conquest and taming of a continent, American patriotism is not concentrated on geography but on a historic event and an idea. The event is the creation of the United States as a fresh start, a different dispensation. The idea...
Gunned Down. Ever since Phoenix's emergence from a parched cow town in the early 1940s to a steamy Southwestern metropolis in the '50s and '60s, criminal elements have flocked to the desert country and flourished. Land fraud has proved the most profitable enterprise, but racketeers have also gained control of restaurants and other fronts for illegal activities...
...theology, James A. Pike became America's most controversial 20th century clergyman. As an infant in Oklahoma, he won the Better Babies contest at the state fair two years running. In 1969, still hyperactive at 56, he got lost and died in Israel's Judean desert−and was the first Episcopal bishop ever to have three surviving wives attend the memorial service at his old cathedral in San Francisco...
...roman à clef as a genre cannot be blamed. It holds an eminent position in literary history. In Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1748), the villainous seducer, Lovelace, happened to be the Duke of Wharton. Robinson Crusoe was based on the desert-island experiences of one Alexander Selkirk off the coast of Chile, and Tristram Shandy caused not-always-comic shocks of recognition among the York neighbors of the puckish Laurence Sterne...
...rebels burst into a U.S. naval radio station near Asmara, Ethiopia, and seized Steven Campbell, 27, a civilian technician, and another American, James Harrell, 41. The kidnapers' apparent motives: extort ransom from the U.S. and end American aid to Ethiopia. They dragged both men across 100 miles of desert in twelve days to a tent outpost. There the guerrillas held them virtually incommunicado on a diet of rice and canned vegetables...