Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faraway hillside, Christ is delivering the Beatitudes. At the fringe of the crowd, where they couldn't hear properly even if they weren't wrangling among themselves, are the Monty Python troupe, misunderstanding. Blessed are the cheesemakers? The Greek shall inherit the earth? "I wonder which one?" someone asks, planning already to ingratiate himself with this fortunate fellow...
...kiddie-type pools, which retail for $700 to $1,200, are running 15% ahead of last year. Total purchases of pools, chemicals and equipment should reach a record of close to $3 billion. The market is helped by the new attention to fitness and the inflation in costs of faraway vacations, but the driving force is gasoline. Nobody has to wait in line to fill a pool with water-or pay $ 1 a gallon...
...learned anything from its energy agonies? Apparently not. Five years after the Arab embargo gripped the nation in petroleum paralysis, the economy remains as vulnerable as ever to upheavals in faraway lands. All winter long the turmoil in Iran has brought chilling reminders of that fact, and last week came some of the scariest yet. It was hard to tell which were more frightening: signs that oil prices were about ready to leap again, or Washington's seeming impotence and inaction...
...dwell on such faraway myths and legends? What significance do my experiences have for Cambridge-bound undergraduates? Only this...
Though he has lived in and written about Spain for nearly 60 years, Brenan was an active member of the Bloomsbury group, and he is at his most pungent when he talks of writers and writing. Of modern verse he complains, "Sometimes I feel that there is a faraway country where much of the English poetry that is printed today was originally written. Our poets, without knowing the language well, translate it into that universal idiom known as translatese. Hence its lack of poetic rhythm, its inability to leave the ground. And when our poets do know how to write...