Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into Who's Who, Kenneth Rexroth, last of the old bohemians, crams the stage of a crowded autobiography. Fortunately, the old political evangelist ceases to wave the flags of social revolt in favor of chronicling the reign of a minor king of the Big Rock Candy Mountain...
...into Who's Who, Kenneth Rexroth, last of the old bohemians, crams the stage of a crowded biography. Fortunately, the old political evangelist ceases to wave the flags of social revolt in favor of chronicling the reign of a minor king of the Big Rock Candy Mountain...
...pack up the cubs and fly to the isles of the blest, and shut ourselves up in the healing solitudes of Haleakala and get a good rest; for the mails do not intrude there, nor yet the telephone and the telegraph. And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all thanks belong, for those privileges, and never housekeep any more." Yet, aside from a tantalizing shipboard glimpse of a Honolulu quarantined by cholera in 1895, he never found...
...historic occasion. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the $4,000,000 display of treasures is currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, winds up in April in Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum. Among the 155 objects, including textiles, armor and ceramics, are some 22 mountain peaks of art, esthetically rare and historically telling, which have culminated trends or determined the artistic course in Japan for 4,500 years. Among the greatest (see color pages) never before seen...
...There, his tall, gangling frame seems suddenly reduced to Lilliputian proportions by the mammoth, 200-in. telescope that towers above him. An elevator hauls him slowly to a cylindrical observer's cage inside the telescope itself, and the dome's curved doors slide open to the cold mountain air. Perched high above the observatory floor, with classical music from an all-night Los Angeles radio station in the background, he checks his instruments, loads a camera and settles down to his lonely vigil...