Word: loon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blackbirds, two meadow larks and one curlew-an increase of eleven. However, the curlew has been fading out for years-even before pesticides. As a boy, I heard the curlew's call almost daily-a song of wild and ethereal beauty; a song embodying the loneliness of a loon's call and the mystery of the divine -to hear it was to be stirred to the depths of one's soul...
...horrifying as a storm trooper battering at the door in the night. In this cave of terrified mutants, the judgments of the outside world arrive as abrasive jeers. To savage the mother, the older daughter tells her that she is known to the neighbors as "Betty the Loon." And yet, Zindel reminds us, strong, strange, beautiful flowers spring from such compost heaps. It is a troubling thought, one of the honest and intelligent values of this splendid and tormented play...
Although it had to be moved to Interville Mountain-a "rinky-dink" place in McCollom's opinion-from Loon Mountain because of a dearth of snow. 85 "A" rated slalom men made the competition fierce...