Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That morning I had found a note and a road map tacked to the door of a house in Black Mountain, N.C., where some friends of mine lived, a note which said "We've gone to Sliding Rock. Come!" with directions. Those directions had ended me up in this pick-up, and just around the corner was "my river," where Sliding Rock was. I had seen the gleam of contentment on the faces of those who knew about Sliding Rock before--to people who live in the mountains the Rock is what a mud slide is to otters...
After a day's worth of Sliding Rock, it was home to cornbread and vegetables from the backyard and a hammock on the porch in Black Mountain. The white-hotness of the day gave in to smoky candles, easy. After a time, there wasn't time...
...king. But France's love of her earth and her produce, her landscape, her language and her money-those are the things French patriotism is really about. So it is with other European nations. The songs and the poetry of patriotism are filled with scenery: with rivers and mountains, with cities longed for, with valleys lost, with castles conquered. American patriotism has much less of this specific sense of place. "From sea to shining sea" or "purple mountain majesties" are somehow unconvincing...
...daily grind itself can be grueling: over snow-covered Rocky Mountain passes, through dusty Kansas cornfields and up testing Appalachian ascents. Yet only 5% of the 4,300 people who have hit the trail since it opened May 14 have dropped out before finishing at least one of the designated 900-mile segments. Last week the first groups of cyclists going coast-to-coast passed each other at Pueblo, Colo...
...conventional way of producing an "official" heroic landscape. Despite Art Historian Robert Rosenblum's benevolent claim in the catalogue that "in most of these works, the mood is one of exhilarating adventure and head-clearing oxygenation," the paint surface tends to go dead at the timber line: the mountain pictures, like Lowell