Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That said, the Sierra Club band strode off behind him into sun-dappled woods, up a winding creek bed. Many had walked no farther than the distance from living-room sofa to TV tuning dial in years. For these, the brisk uphill pace, over boulders, across the brooks and fallen trees, was arduous going. By the time they sprawled out for lunch, on ledge rocks by a waterfall, blisters were rising on tender feet...
...modern terms as any individual but as the center of a system of obligations. Evasion or betrayal of these obligations may be punishable by metamorphosis into some monstrous, less-than-human form. Life, he writes, is "a perilous moral journey." The freaks are those who have fallen from grace. Piety is rewarded by full humanity. His "piety," of course, is in the Latin sense of pietas. He is pious in what Webster notes as a second meaning: "Loyal devotion to parents, family, race, etc." And his pieties have been paid as son, husband, father and brother in stories which point...
Dundy's first American heroine, Sally Jay Gorce in The Dud Avocado, was a memorably silly goose engulfed by all manner of insidious plots. Her second, a neurotic coed loosed upon London society in search of loot, can best be described as a pit viper fallen among king cobras. Honey Flood, as she calls herself, tries to put the permanent bite on a fat-cat Englishman by killing him to get his money, but discovers much to her surprise that she would rather have her victim in bed than dead...
...remains of the last city to occupy the mound, apparently abandoned about 700 B.C. A few feet below the surface were the floors, streets and wall-footings of an older city that was destroyed by fire. Grey wood ash was everywhere, sometimes mixed with charred beams and mud from fallen roofs...
...locates the earphones and hears Scott say: "I'm your friend, Marty. You must believe me, I'm your friend. Just hand me the gun, Marty." But Marty isn't about to hand over the gun right away, and meanwhile the man on the ledge has fallen but is now hanging on with one hand. Arthur grabs the earphones back from his son. He hears shallow breathing and a low groan. He is missing something. A fight has broken out in the hockey game and the scoring light is on. How did they score? Arthur rips...