Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing the story of the land and people was enough. He set up his huge Graflex in the middle of Depot Street one evening to photograph the grain elevator gloriously in flames. He parked his Ford in a cut made by a snowplow after one of the blizzards of 1936. The picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front...
...necessary for an enduring rural culture. What in today's world is "enough"? Can families set aside the blandishments of television and be satisfied again with the spectacle of nature and living close to it, with homemade entertainments and being with one another doing good work on good land? Ed Sidey thinks they can, if there is just enough money to keep people apace of the world in education and health care, if the economic base is adequate to support quality churches, parks and streets. The fundamental values still celebrated along Greenfield's streets are as sound as ever, their...
...West was won, Los Angeles and the 20th century were built, by the cowboy mind. To the cowboy, nature was a vast wilderness waiting to be tamed. The land was a stage, a backdrop against which he could pursue his individual destiny. The story of the world was the story of a man, usually a white man, and its features took their meaning from their relationship to him. A mountain was a place to test one's manhood; an Asian jungle with its rich life and cultures was merely a setting for an ideological battle. The natives are there...
They have known almost nothing but war. For a generation men have fought over the fabled ruins of Angkor Wat, the colonial palaces of Phnom Penh, and the rich rice paddies along the Mekong River, leaving more than a million Cambodians dead and their land in ruins. But at long last the shell-shocked country had something to cheer. Cambodians crowded the streets last week to hail the withdrawal of the last of the 200,000 Vietnamese troops who had occupied their country for nearly eleven years. Across the eastern border in Viet Nam, there was also celebration. Senior officials...
Brooks, however, was not. She and her husband decided to take the case to the Massachusetts Land Court. Rather than continue to fight the neighborhood, school officials decided to sell...