Word: mannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barrier between me and the world beyond the road's shoulder as I set out from Detroit heading west on Interstate 80 was the presence of man. In the Great Lakes urban belt--the Mid-western equivalent of the Boston to Washington drive--there is no "real world" to disturb the traveller. Even further west, until the Great Plains start their ascent to the Rockies, the world is unequivocally man's--safe and predictable. There is not a mile of road, from Illinois to Nebraska, down into Colorado, that passes through unfenced land. Along every mile you can see farm...
...attempts. As I left town, the land changed from low foothill country of Colorado. Watered hillocks gave way to the terrifying, barren and twisted land that sees less than seven inches of rain a year. The road, no longer flanked by fences and farms, cannot remain a symbol of man's secure hold on his own turf. It seems instead an imposition, almost an irrelevance. As I passed the turnoff to Salt Lake other motorists evaporated. I was left all alone on a superhighway, seeing five cars in half an hour...
...feel a man should be judged by what kind of man he is on a daily basis, not by his darkest moment...
Your article about the Freedom Festival of the Christian-Patriots Defense League in Louisville, Ill. [Nov. 5], is interesting, but scary. It is ironic that people who profess to be aggressive, patriotic Christians are giving lessons in how to blow away their fellow man...
...civil war. The Ayatullah Khomeini, old and ailing, does not understand modern statecraft, diplomacy or administration. Jimmy Carter does not know how to deal with him; neither does anybody else. Says a European diplomat: "What can you do when faced with a mad geriatric case?" Yet this remarkable old man, and he alone, seems to possess the power to preserve his volatile country from total anarchy?and to free the rest of the American hostages in Tehran...