Word: dorados
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gracefully on the banks of the Elbe, has long been a center of German musical life. It boasts a distinguished lineage of kapellmeisters that extends back to Heinrich Schutz in the 17th century and includes Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner. It has been called an "El Dorado for premieres," and so it was: among the operas first performed there are Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Tannhauser, and Richard Strauss's Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier. Symbolically, the resurrected Semper Opera opened with Weber's Der Freischutz, the last work heard in the hall before it closed...
...outsiders, California's Silicon Valley looks like a contemporary El Dorado. Once given over to fruit orchards, its 150 sq. mi. in Santa Clara County are home to some of America's most successful and innovative companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Apple Computer. Hundreds of other high-technology firms are trying to mimic their success. While the vast majority have prospered, quite a few are now discovering that not all the streets in the valley are paved with profits. For them, the earlier dreams of success and overnight riches have crumbled...
...about to short-circuit on its own success. Well-managed companies with strong market niches are thriving, and investors continue to back new ventures in high-growth businesses. Among them: CAD/CAM machines that are used for computer-aided design and manufacturing, and computer-aided engineering equipment. Still, the El Dorado atmosphere has waned. Says Public Relations Executive Richard Moran, a former Atari employee: "A gym teacher in Indianapolis still views Silicon Valley as the promised land. But a lot of people here don't see that any more." While the valley still holds riches, its hazards...
...book Passage Through El Dorado, Kandell plays up the similarities between the wave of settlement now occurring in the jungle interior of South America and the push west so important to U.S. history. The wild, reckless settlement of the Amazon region has much of the character of an Oklahoma land rush. And they may have the same importance for the nations south of the border that the settlement of the west had for the United States-relieving overcrowded cities and rural areas of some of their excess populations. This could be especially important in nations like Brazil, whose urban areas...
Passage Through El Dorado's best moments come when Kandell describes the frontier's conflicts and the people who fight them. As a chronicler of the new frontier he varies between the sociological reasoning of a Frederick Jackson Turner and the adventure-packed storytelling of Louis L'Amour. He does a better job at the latter. While he makes many interesting observations about the changes the settlement of the frontier will have for South America, the book remains very much a fun read, highly suitable for beach-towel browsing. In what current novel can you meet Robert Suarez, the "Cocaine...