Word: eden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN SPANISH CONQUISTADORES ARRIVED IN MEXIco in the 16th century, they found a veritable Eden and quickly despoiled it. The Spaniards' introduction of the plow accelerated soil erosion; in contrast, indigenous farmers' low-tech methods kept the land in pristine shape. Or so environmentalists, who are urging a return to traditional farming techniques in many areas of the world, like to think...
...Hispanic civilization. Sediment samples from the lake revealed that erosion rates were at least as high before as after the Spaniards' arrival. In fact, erosion appears to have fallen off after the conquest. The conclusion: a return to traditional farming methods is no guarantee of a return to Eden...
...walk through those gates and you're in your very own Garden of Eden. Mount Auburn Street could be a million miles away. This fall the energetic House Committee sent two busloads of Lowellians to romp in the leaves of western Massachusetts. The Winter Waltz brings Vienna to your very own dining hall. In the spring you can smell the roses that one of the tutors cares for so reverently, and you can help set off the "cannons" for the annual open-air read-through of the 1812 Overture. And what other house hosts the longest running opera...
Hesione, in all the ripeness of mature beauty, wears a dress which is the seductive red of the proverbial apple of Eden; Ellie Dunn, when we first meet her, wears the green of spring and undeveloped innocence; while Ariadne Utterword--Hesione's cold sister who expresses a desire "to be respectable, to be a lady"--dresses in the whiteness of false modesty and conventionality...
...fruit country--an Eden of tart berries and sweet cherries...