Word: litters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems certain he can distinguish himself from Miller, certain that he and his age are looking for "an accommodation of the sexes," whereas Miller "calls out for an antagonism." In the heat of his own argument, Mailer seems to have forgotten the battles between the sexes whose corpses litter the fields of his own novels. Suddenly, the novelist who sees himself as a "general who sends his troops across fields of paper," the writer who creates for posterity a character he can call "hunter-fighter-fucker" (in Why Are We In Vietnam? ), suddenly our ever belligerent hero has become...
...perch in Kenya's Lake Rudolf before setting off on a four-day camel safari in the wild northeast, also had a complaint about the cameramen. "Watch it!" he snapped when one of them discarded some film cartons. "I hope you are not going to leave that litter around in this beautiful country." The photographer picked up the cartons...
...separation between church and state -is the author's real subject. The Emmett Shannons of the world still have their Sister Philomenas teaching arithmetic: "Emmett, how much is four prophecies plus eight prophecies divided by three prophecies?" The religious oddments that Sheehan calls "the pornography of piety" still litter their homes...
...disaster spurs a belated environmental consciousness, national pride apparently does not. Italy, once "the garden of Europe," is now choking in litter and traffic congestion. Of its 5,000 miles of glorious coastline, 4,320 are polluted by municipal and industrial wastes...
These are the acts of a few criminals. But the new machines cause more general damage. Trail bikers litter the landscape with beer cans, pull-top rings, plastic bags, oily rags, empty bottles. Pistol-packing snowmobilers are decimating Alaskan caribou; overhunting is common elsewhere. At Minnesota's tiny, remote Pierz Lake, a reporter counted 67 snowmobiles and 120 fishermen in one winter day. The sportsmen took out 556 Ibs. of medium-sized fishabout a year's production for the lake...