Word: mountainize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literary genre, as the consummate portrait painter of the modern world. Yet he seems to have done no more than to refine and elaborate this theory of a world of material objects. In the selection of a background for the great narrative painting which is "Magic Mountain", Herr Mann has displayed considerable cleverness. He has chosen an Alpine tuberculosis santorium, where life can be studied in simplicity without the usual consequent sacrifice of sophistication...
...Mountain Streams. The official death list of the two-month flood of the Mississippi River is 114. Last week in Kentucky and Tennessee scores of mountain streams, creeks hardly with names, took probably as many lives in the space of a few days. Flooded by an eleven-hour cloudburst they swept away bridges, houses and villages. Hardest hit was Perry County, Ky., with some 30 dead. The estimated death list has passed 100, with reports from isolated mountain districts expected materially to increase this total. Said Sheriff William Cornett of Perry County: "This is undoubtedly the worst catastrophe that Kentucky...
...Hans Castorp eats, sleeps, falls in love with Madame Chauchat, talks to his cousin Joachim, he reproduces in miniature man living in a community of death. The other dwellers on the magic mountain, likewise specializations of humanity in the large, significant and tiny, make irritable and oblivious motions in front of the backdrop of disaster...
Some 30 hours train-ride west of Chicago, close to the South Dakota-Wyoming boundary line, stretches a mountain range known to the Indians as the Paha Sapa (Black Hills). Once they formed part of the Sioux Indian Reservation but when, in 1874, gold deposits were discovered, the red men were quickly served with notices to depart. Later the hills gave sanctuary to horse-thieves, cattle-rustlers and all manner of "wanted" men with blood on their hands and prices on their heads. Now the hills are subdued and subdivided, and populous with tourists. The gasoline station has supplanted...
...kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure of the human soul into refreshment. But it is too long between bites; we must have more fish...