Word: landing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started in disillusionment with the American Dream. As Alexis de Tocqueville clairvoyantly saw in 1835, the dream always contained a dark possibility that it might eventually degenerate, in its fulfillment, into a sorry and anxiously sweating materialism, the American elect unsatisfied, wanting more and more, turning the land of plenty into the land of wretched excess...
...though their faces are as innocent as children," and sees the bloody, inert body of a man whom the enemy has tortured. Contrary to Greek myths, animals do not imitate men, rather the men are brought down to a constant animal awareness of their bodies. They are starving. The land cannot feed us all, thinks...
...horror, the surreal banality of these events is subordinated to a larger ethic: survival through storytelling. In Greece, the land of Homer, men classically reach immortality not by living a Christian life and going to Heaven, but through kleos, the everlasting glory conferred on men through poetry, heroic actions, and the telling of tales. They become, in effect, the defeaters of The theme is enlarged upon until finally, the boy, almost grown, decides, all "stories are good. Even if a story is about death, it's a good story. But death itself is not, there is no death that...
Remember to watch for dropped flies, pop-ups, surprisingly bad performances by superstars, a bad throw from right field by Dwight Evans, and very probably a sprained ankle--or more likely--a fractured ulna or battered hip or broken tibia. These are the curses which blow in from Cleveland, land of the perverse and mindbending mysterious. These are the kind of things which only happen in conjunction with Cleveland...
...Boston, had been bashed on the head in a waterfront scuffle with Sierra crewmen and was hospitalized with a severe concussion. The Sierra sailors, many of them South Africans, were detained, but at week's end most had been discharged, and any legal action about the skirmishing on land or sea was still...