Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burial mound was found in the center of the vast Royal Cemetary, 10 miles from Sardis. It is a small artificial mountain of clay, earth, and limestone, some 700 feet in diameter and 120 feet high. Hidden within the great mound was found an earlier mound 300 feet in diameter. Circling the base of the inner mound is a six-foot-high wall of beautiful masonry crowned by a large circular bolster...
...Yorker Peter Chinni, 36, is a more abstract sculptor than Hayes, but a walk around his Morning gives the feeling of a slumbering world stirring and stretching just before dawn. Awakening Mountain II, an 8-ft. bronze, catches light on flat planes and hides shadows in deep crevices. Forty-five pieces in silver and bronze...
...does the rabbit go over the mountain?" the guide asks. "Why is a giraffe's neck so long?" "Why is a lion's head so big?" (Answers: "Because the mountain won't go over the rabbit." "So he can reach the ground to eat the grass." "So he can't stick it between the bars of his cage.") For each wrong reply, the guide gets to whack the hunter on the rump with a willow branch. Smart Westerners can always retaliate with a few Red riddles of their own. One that is currently bouncing around...
...sank to the ocean floor. A few shark teeth were found among the bones, suggesting that sharks may have had a few bites of paradoxia's plentiful flesh before a storm or flood covered the body with sand. Then sediment from the sierras covered it deeply, and a mountain range pushed upward between its grave and the ocean. At last big-brained primates, which had not evolved during its lifetime, brought it into the sunlight while searching for the secrets of infinitesimal matter...
...Greenville, S.C., where he spent much of his time studying languages. He still has some working competence in French, German, Spanish, Greek, Russian and Latin. But eventually he settled for science. Now, even the demands of his administrative job and his work in the laboratory must share time with mountain climbing, skindiving, and the raising of African violets...