Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the exercises, the group went on a 35-minute image trip. With the lights turned off, students lay down and mentally left the confines of their bodies. Following verbal suggestions, participants went from a meadow, to a stream, to the highest peaks of a mountain, into a fire, and ultimately into a diamond...
Just over the mountains from here, seven horned larks, two Brewer's 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...
...tons of daily refuse collected in New York City is dumped at sea, nor has it been for about 34 years. Seventeen percent of New York City is the result of sanitary-landfill operations, including Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, the World's Fair site at Flushing Meadow Park, Shea Stadium, Orchard Beach, Canarsie Beach, Marine Park with a 27-hole golf course, and the new United Nations School at the East River...
...finished just in time for the White House exhibition, is a portrait of "Sissy" Spruance, a shy 20-year-old who works as a stable girl on a farm near Wyeth's home in Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley. "One day I spotted her riding bareback over the meadow, her braided hair flying and those two long strands falling over her face," recalls Wyeth. "She was wearing that raccoon hat as I have never seen any girl wear a hat -as if it were on an animal, not a human." The final inspiration came half a year later when...