Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explanation for the tradition of terror in California, and particularly in San Francisco, is that the area is a mecca for restless dreamers. The mark of the 1849 gold rush is still pervasive. Writes Kevin Starr in Americans and the California Dream: "The state remained, after all, a land characterized by an essential selfishness and an underlying instability, a fixation upon the quick acquisition of wealth, an impatience with the more subtle premises of human happiness." Of the 1960s, when some 1,000 people a day fled west, Joan Didion wrote in Slouching Towards Bethlehem: "Adolescents drifted from city...
...Egyptians entirely, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal likes to recall a time when Nasser savagely attacked King Faisal for months on end. Nasser suspended his attacks just long enough to ask Faisal to give him $10 million so that several thousand Egyptian pilgrims could go to Mecca. The King was annoyed at the shamelessness of the request, but in the end he agreed. After all, he reasoned, why shouldn't he help poor Muslims to reach the Holy City...
...hasn't become clear by now, I suppose I should say that we were heading for Filene's basement, for the mecca of all bargain hunters in New England. The uninitiated should know that this is one of the few places where one can actually obtain Name Brand Merchandise at Low, Low Prices. You've heard the claim made of many a store, no doubt. Most are simply pretenders, with prices that aren't really low, or brands that aren't quite up to snuff. But Namo and I, we knew just what we were doing...
...Sunday that, by the climactic instant of Erhard's appearance, has begun to seem like an eon if only because of the hardtail, fold-down seats of the place: a seedy high school auditorium on Manhattan's Upper East Side temporarily exalted into a mecca for the awareness/consciousness movement. Packing picnic lunches and pillows, the moderately young, mostly white enthusiasts now relishing Erhard, with murmurs of "Beautiful" and "Fabulous," have been here since morning, absorbing with similar murmurs such gurus as Wayne (Your Erroneous Zones) Dyer, Arnold (Pumping Iron) Schwarzenegger, Masters and (The Pleasure Bond) Johnson. This...
...destiny of the Holy City point to the difficulties that lie ahead in finding a solution to the most difficult of all Middle East problems. To the 100,000 Arabs of East Jerusalem?indeed, to Arabs everywhere?Jerusalem is the third-ranking of Islam's holy places (after Mecca and Medina) and the obvious capital of any Palestinian entity set up on the West Bank. Says Anwar Khatib, former governor of East Jerusalem under Jordanian rule: "Without safeguarding Arab sovereignty over East Jerusalem, all other proposals will not stand...