Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's money which could be spent on providing adequate scholarships for me and the rest of that 5% or so of Harvard students who represent the bottom 60% of the income range of the U.S. population, is instead going to pay for property taxes on a plot of land which, courtesy of that same Harvard, is a private garden where some 20 or 30 of the sons of alumni who made large donations (let them donate their own goddamn garden!), can drink martinis while they decide whether the Panama Canal will be safer under Ford or Reagan; when...
After then travelling through India, Nepal, and the veldts of East Africa (where Land Rover safaris past Kilimanjaro and across the Serengeti plain were the major method of instruction), the year concluded at Jaeger's villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Sperlonga, Italy. Only a few of the students--one a woman who remained in a Sherpa village near Mt. Everest--failed to join the rest for the final week of the school. The week was given over to thesis writing (or dancing, or narrating) for those concerned about academic credit when they returned to their respective colleges...
...weeks, after flying to Kyoto, the next stop on the itinerary, classes were thrice weekly, as much for the security of having a mini-U.S.A. as for the discussions on the nature of the culture. Organized field trips explored various parts of the land from Kabuki theater to dawn fish markets. A tatami-mat coffee house near Ginkaku-ji temple that served saki and played early Dylan became an after-hours meeting place for many in the group, including the faculty...
Ethiopia today seems caught between the chaos and tragic contrasts of trying to impose a socialist revolution, stitched together from Marxist-Leninist textbook ideology, onto an ancient and feudal land of almost bewitching beauty and vulnerability. The mountainside city of Addis Ababa itself reflects the dichotomy. Its haunting, wild setting amid mist-covered mountains, ancient stone paths and a profusion of roses and bougainvillaea is as timeless and unchanged as its poverty-stricken population, dressed in layers of worn, soiled clothing, sleeping in rag bundles on the sidewalks, and driving small flocks of donkeys and cows through the main streets...
...bombing in show business, Lemongello was succeeding in a lot of other fields. In Islip, he turned an egg-selling job into a distributorship, using the profits to invest in some gas stations, which he then swapped for a chain of coin-operated laundries. He was moving into land speculation and home building when he told the local Islip banker who was financing his housing deals about his moribund career as a crooner. The banker gave him an idea: If he could sell eggs and laundries and houses, why not himself...