Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Final Tragedy. Over the whole story broods Houston's larger protagonist: nature in the Arctic, the violent rhythm of storms and seasons. There is an almost Homeric hunt for walrus, and a winter dance of exquisite magic and sexuality. Eventually a moment comes in the long winter when the whalers, ugly but not serious, threaten an Eskimo with knives. In his code, it is a disastrous challenge: he must either kill the kalunait or exile himself. "But killing men was not our custom," says Avinga, "and it had not been done in living memory." With no reasonable solution possible...
...Burn down your cities and leave our farms," William Jennings Bryan once said, "and your cities will spring up again as if by magic, but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." Amid tales of urban blight, the U.S. may find solace in the enduring, seemingly endless reach of its fecund farmland. The nation is still sustained by the richest bounty of produce on earth, and it is sowing time again. TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick last week visited Erv Walters' farm in northern Illinois. His report...
Some complainers are calling this year's Derby the worst parade of horseflesh since the milkwagon went out of style, and some are comparing the race to the Charge of the Light Brigade, but they are overlooking the special Derby magic-the beautiful girls, the warm spring sunshine, the mint juleps and the relaxed, holiday atmosphere. Besides, this year, it ought to be a damn close horse race...
...This book has become a sort of Bible for many ecofreaks although it never mentions pollution and was mostly written between 1953 and 1960. As Snyder characterizes himself, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision of solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." "Whatever is or ever was in any other culture can be reconstructed from the unconscious through meditation ... the coming revolution will close the circle...
...want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things-A Computer Magic-A Writing Letters to Those You Love-A Finding out about Fish-A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty...