Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More and more companies are buying up giant tracts of wilderness or desert, subdividing them and launching hard-sell campaigns. The selling effort typically includes idyllic newspaper and magazine ads, mass telephoning, softening-up cocktail parties and din ners for prospective customers, paid transportation to the site, and even free green stamps just for showing up. Many developments are models of intelligent planning, from Titan Group's Yosemite Lakes Park in California to J.M. Huber Co.'s Beaver Cove on Maine's Moosehead Lake. But fraud and misrepresentation persist, and large swatches of unspoiled wilderness are being...
...week, nine and a half hours a day, in return for 48 cents and two meals a day, showers, blankets, and a roof over their heads. As digs go, the conditions, though certainly rudimentary, were not as primitive as they might have been--Winchester wasn't in a desert, and plumbing was supplied, eliminating common inconveniences of classical field digs. For these attractions, applications poured in, forcing Caroline Raison, the coordinator for volunteer recruiting, to select only one out of four applicants. Personal enthusiasm but common sense were requisite, and as Raison explained, the project wanted "people with a realistic...
Exterminating Angel and Simon of the Desert, by Luis Bunuel. Kirkland Dining Hall...
...days depart and pass, laden somehow like processional camels - across the desert of one's solitude," James complained. Yet he possessed the social energy of a professional din ner guest. A master observer of scenes, he sought his scenes out, commuting seasonally to London, and finally in 1904 returning to the United States he had last observed 21 years before. He traveled as far as California on a notably successful lecture tour, sharing with his audiences (at fees of up to $250) "The Lesson of Balzac...
...Assassins fits a similar pattern, except now Kazan's subject is the whole United States of America-as a terminal case. Military hardware lies slowly disintegrating in the desert, the law softens and bends, violence flourishes, youths rot their minds with chemicals. This is certainly not the country of Kazan's autobiographical novel America America, the young immigrant's dream and fulfillment. In the new book, a father tells his acidhead son, "If you want to live a big life, get a big cause," and the kid doesn't know what his father is talking about...