Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven hours after takeoff, Siple's plane was nearing 90° south, the point at which all meridians converge, from which all directions are north-the mathematical bottom of the earth. A featureless snow desert stretched away into a glittering white nothingness below. Then, incongruously, there was sudden evidence of man and the machine age. Tracks cut deep into the snow marked the routes of skiers, sledges, tractors and ski planes. Where they converged was a cluster of orange and tan huts and mechanized equipment...
...provide a guessing game for Texas cattlemen adept at estimating values on the hoof, but to capture "the thing you always feel about a bull. He's the most powerful of the animal kingdom, and he seems to know it." In Place in the Desert (see cut), viewers are more likely to respond to Dozier's sense of the earth's architecture, with its hard, crystalline ribs and the harsh, hot feel of the desert, than to pinpoint its location. Said Texan Dozier, who consciously aims to break the bonds of regionalism...
...poem in etchings and lithographs (133 in all) to celebrate the myths and meanings of the Old Testament. The drawing is rough and bold, almost primitive, but intentionally so, to picture the time and to convey the responses of a driven people who found God in a harsh desert. Deliberate, also, are the Old Testament characters, made to look like medieval ghetto figures, and the animals that might have been drawn by cave dwellers to illustrate a great saga. These powerful, often dreamily tortuous drawings are full of the awe, the stern morality in which their origins were themselves steeped...
...western border of Egypt sits the five-year-old desert nation of Libya, whose chief export is dried esparto grass, and whose income comes largely from giant British and U.S. air bases. Its people are so poorly educated that Egypt eagerly supplies it with teachers, professional men, even government officials...
...Pathfinder. In El Centro, Calif., after he got lost overnight on the desert, Pomona College Geology Student Bob Ward explained that he became muddled when he paid too much attention to the maps he was making...