Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shot up by 400% , and revenues more than doubled-thanks in part to tourism, which this year grossed some $90 million. There are dark spots in this sunny picture-some 100,000 young Greeks have emigrated to West Germany to find jobs, and poverty retains its grip on primitive mountain villages. Street peddlers in Athens still haul sponges, bananas and chestnuts-but they now walk beneath glittering neon signs that reveal the internationalization of an increasingly modern economy: IBM, Siemens, Haig & Haig, Diners Club...
Actually it was a fast not a feast that brought Gassman, Novelist Carlo (Christ Stopped at Eboli) Levi, poets, folk singers and droves of journalists to the bleak little mountain town south of Palermo. Ever since 1929, when a visiting Fascist minister promised that the government would build a dam near by, Roccamenensi have eagerly looked forward to the day when they would be able to irrigate their parched fields and perhaps even stanch the northward exodus of hungry peasants that has emptied whole villages in the area. In 1952 the government finally earmarked $12.8 million for the project...
...energy of Spain through small details (leaves "glistened on the damp earth like freshly minted gold florins") and longer passages ("the light limped from rock to rock on its way like a wounded bird on its way upward. For a moment, it rested on the peak of the opposite mountain, seemed to pirouette upward, then disappeared. The mute murmur of evening, like the tigress's melody, enveloped the monastery"). Naturally, Kazantzakis chooses more brutal images in the second section, as when Madrid's "divine, sun-washed body was dissolving" during a bombing...
JAMES R. MANLEY Mountain View, Calif...
...going-home time for the President last week. Six months after their seven-bedroom retreat was built on Rattlesnake Mountain near Middleburg, Va., the First Family was off to spend their first weekend there...