Word: mountain
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...thing that neither time nor politics has changed is Massachusetts' official stand on the 1927 execution of famed Radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Ten years ago Democratic Governor Charles F. Hurley curtly rejected the offer of a bronze bas-relief, designed by the late mountain-sculpturing Gutzon Borglum, as a memorial to "the good shoemaker and the poor fish peddler." Last week Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford just as firmly turned it down again. This time the committee that offered it to the state was headed by Harvard Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger...
Bing Crosby looked none too healthy in a photo from the wilds of Alberta, Canada-but it was mostly the usual depressed hat and the unusual beard. Hunter Crosby was dead tired after a day of shooting. His bag thus far: a moose, a bighorn sheep, and a mountain goat...
...WHEN THE MOUNTAIN FELL (221 pp.)-Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, translated by Sarah Fisher Scoff-Pantheon...
...Book-of-the-Month Club advertises meritorious and meretricious books in the same loud tone of voice. To the club's 900,000 members, judgments like "powerful," "moving," "noble," "haunting" must by now have the same dull ring as "colossal" has for moviegoers. When the Mountain Fell, the club's co-choice for October, is promoted with all these words. But for the first time in many a month, they are not entirely irrelevant...
Readers who are accustomed to febrile, jerky best-sellers will find When the Mountain Fell a strange dish. So will those whose sense of style has been numbed by those same bestsellers. When the Mountain Fell is the artfully simple story of what happened when a landslide wiped out a herders' settlement in the Swiss Alps 200 years ago. Far below in the village of Aire, the roar was heard in the middle of a clear June night. Next morning, the lovely, cattle-dotted valley of Derborence was choked with the 150,000,000 cubic feet of rock that...