Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afraid I cannot justify your shopping without taking The Book with you. As I have tried to stress to all my reading Public, the owner of A Confederate General from Big Sur does not possess a material "book." He has, rather, a warm piece of earth, complete with weeds, dirt, three or four gross-thingies, and all the little strings than hang down from pieces of earth. A very drunk young Pakistani once told...
...directed not against the rich but against the poor....How the Church and the false revolutionaries draw together: love the poor--for they are humble. I say hate the poor for the humility which keeps their faces pressed into the mud...tell them to walk proudly on this earth...
...current issue of Scientific American. The prequake variations in the path of the pole suggest to him that the wobble is responsible for-rather than a result of-the earthquakes. Furthermore, he speculates, the wobble may also cause climate changes, mountain-building, and even the occasional reversal of the earth's magnetic field. But Heirtzler's theory still leaves wide open the question that Mansinha and Smylie believe they have correctly answered: What causes the wobble...
Other ventures are more down to earth. Pillsbury has gone into the broiler field (cutup chickens), and has begun to market dehydrated cake mixes. Unlike the conventional powdered mixes, they contain all the necessary ingredients thoroughly mixed into a "batter," and the lovin' housewife has only to add water and eggs. Last year the company acquired the nationally franchised chain of Burger King diners. That move capitalized on a number of trends: the nation's increasing mobility and affluence, the fast growth of roadside restaurants and the rapid expansion of franchising. Pillsbury estimates that Americans spend $22 billion...
...Thomas Crown Affair--In which Norman Jewison, having tackled a variety of earth-shaking themes, takes a vacation. At the PARAMOUNT, Washington St., Boston...