Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strong as the tree against the wind, Strong as the rock against the river, Strong as the mountain snow against...
...studying the effects of quack cures, Dr. Horton and his colleagues got to know the local quacks themselves. One was a prosperous hill-country dairy farmer, another a housewife active in church work. A third was a mountain farmer who, Horton reported, could "quote more Bible than any man I ever saw . . . We told him he didn't know what a cancer was, and he didn't." When told that he had cancer himself, the mountain healer went to Duke for treatment...
They read everything from Beardsley's Practical Logic to Crane Brinton's Ideas and Men. They studied the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita, proceeded to the Iliad, the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, The Brothers Karamazov, Remembrance of Things Past, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain and Moby Dick. They read The Portable Medieval Reader and the Autobiography of Cellini, studied the economics of Adam Smith and Marx, of Tawney, Keynes and Executive Suite...
...first prize at the international Biennale of Venice." Back in Bristol, Fazzini's blast got a homespun retort. Editorialized the Bristol Herald Courier: "He said he didn't know where Bristol is after he learned us 'hillbillies' in this 'mountain-locked community' reckoned his divine piece of Small Boy and Fawn wasn't worth the asking price of $8,500 in view of the need for other things-like schoolrooms and such . . . Now frankly we don't have any bones to pick with Mr. Fazzini. His statue may be a 'divine...
...spellbound air of the entire figure are pre-Grecian. The boots are even odder than the horned helmet they counterpoint. Hittite sculptures sometimes have upturned toes, but never so exaggerated. A few experts guess that the boots are a sort of combination ski and snowshoe, pointing to a mountain origin, yet most of the body is naked to the cold...