Word: donner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...institution significantly named the Donner Pass College for Women, the author pits a pair of middle-aged Eastern Jewish intellectual males against a covey of young Western Baptist extroverted females. To this year's Donner Pass Symposium for Distinguished Visitors come an obnoxious poet, Fox, and a weary, rueful professor, Isaiah Greene. Greene is at first charmed despite himself by the earnest and buxom simple-mindedness of the girls and their quaint collegiate rituals. What troubles him is the crassness of his odious colleague, the loudmouthed, girl-chasing...
...massive but stubbornly hefted anyway. The author follows the disintegration of a small Indian tribe, the Washo, who lived by hunting rabbits near Lake Tahoe. His central vision has brutal force: that the very first sight any Washo had of white men was in midwinter, high in the Donner Pass, at the moment when surviving members of a party of settlers began to eat their own dead...
Robert B. Woodward, Donner Professor of Science, who headed the Harvard contingent, said that the success will have few immediate results, but it is possible that this breakthrough will lead to the discovery of synthetic compounds superior to their natural counterparts. "Natural materials are not always the best," he said...
...incident was reminiscent of the history of the Donner Party, a group of 87 pioneers who were trapped by early snow in the California mountains in 1846. When their food gave out,they resorted to cannibalism to survive. As George Keithley wrote in his narrative poem The Donner Party, "Men dug the dead out of the snow and took whatever would make a meal...
...California, the home of Sirhan Sirhan, the Zodiac Killer, Juan Corona, Altamont, People's Park, the Donner Party, the San Andreas Fault, and Richard Nixon, thus begat another symbol of doom and yet another disciple of destruction, this one the most feared of all, coyote-man Charles Manson. For if Manson was given to referring to himself as a coyote who heard and knew all, whose senses were sharp enough to catch any stirrings of life outside his void, then those he surrounded himself with were the rabbits, plump and innocent, waiting for the kill...