Word: fecund
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story is rather scampi in detail." Conditions last week would have been even worse except for the temporary absence of our champion punster, Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer. In self-defense. Kanfer observes that puns show up in the most ancient writings, and "what was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare...
...feel its thrust is the state of California. A team headed by the energetic consumer advocate has completed a 15-month study of the anatomy of California's land and water resources and political power. The findings are disturbing. According to the report, the nation's most fecund state is virtually controlled by a closely knit power structure that is systematically stripping California's resources for immense profits. The report claims that a mere 25 landowners-24 of them corporations-hold 13% of all private land and that many of these holdings were illegally acquired. The charges...
...once said, "and your cities will spring up again as if by magic, but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." Amid tales of urban blight, the U.S. may find solace in the enduring, seemingly endless reach of its fecund farmland. The nation is still sustained by the richest bounty of produce on earth, and it is sowing time again. TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick last week visited Erv Walters' farm in northern Illinois. His report...
Igor Stravinsky despises commentary on himself, which is a final vindication of remarkable sanity. His greatness rests in his classic, harmonious balance of intellect and heart, never false to his craft, his faith. His life and art are a testament to the fecund sanity of stern, uncompromising intellectual hostility toward the world in the creation of beauty. His definition of the intellectual stresses the constructive moral power of analytical discipline and exploration...