Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flight from Chile, through the harsh Southern Andes into Argentina and eventually over to Paris, left an impression on him perhaps as great as the events of a decade before. It was this journey, among mountain peasants who had never heard the name or the poetry of Pablo Neruda, that he recounts in his Nobel Lecture and repeats in the Memoirs. The trip across the Andes contained a simple lesson for Neruda: the poet must identify with mankind because "there is no such thing as a lone struggle...
...served nothing stronger than nonalcoholic Catawba grape juice, though they tolerated hip flasks of bourbon and Scotch. But there were also elements of the New South: many of the majorettes in the inaugural parade were black, and at the ball, after some foot-stomping folk dances by the Grandfather Mountain Cloggers, the North Carolina Dance Theater performed an excerpt from The Nutcracker. Said Hunt: ''We have to involve people, and we simply must be more creative in asking them to get involved...
Late Sunday night, Federal District Court Judge Willis Ritter ordered a stay of execution, but a federal appeals court lifted the stay early Monday morning. Thirty minutes after the stay was lifted, at 8:07 Mountain Standard Time, Gilmore was executed...
...this Republic of Technology the experience of the present actually uproots us and separates us from our own special time and place. For technology aims to dilute and immunize us against the peculiar chances, perils and opportunities of our natural climate, our raw landscape. The snowmobile makes a steep mountain slope or the tongue of a glacier just another highway. Our America has been blessed by a myriad variety of landscapes. But whether we are on the mountaintop, in the desert, on shipboard, in our automobile or an airplane, we are protected from the climate, the soil, the sand...
...American technology devoted, as it so often is, to breaking the law. And because I was just as drunk as they were, and very nearly as foolish, I stood out between them with my arms raised, and their headlights illuminated me like a Christian idol on some South American mountain top. I dropped my arms, and the two cars slid by me spitting and kicking gravel...