Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nowhere did this action meet with greater approval than in Bogotá itself, where Bogotanos had despaired of having their mountain capital spic & span for the January meeting. For seven months, 500 men had been on the job from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., refurbishing the century-old Capitolio Nacional, where the sessions will be held. Behind locked doors, Artist Martinez Delgado painted until 2 a.m. on a fresco depicting Bolivar's inauguration in 1821. The block-long Ministry of Government building on the Avenida Jiménez de Quesada was only half-scoured, the cleaned marble and sandstone...
Every Texan knows the tales of Pecos Bill, the mythical great-granddad of all cowboys. Pecos Bill was born in Texas (naturally, say Texans) and raised by coyotes. Rattlesnakes hid when they heard him coming, because Pecos Bill's bite might poison them. He used mountain lions for saddle horses, invented centipedes and tarantulas for pets...
...When the Mountain Fell, a tale of utter simplicity and symbolic depth by the late Swiss Novelist Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, reminded some readers and writers of the value of perfected style. So did The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster, England's dean of novelists...
Among the few U.S. novels that did not suffer from paucity of style as well as poverty of theme was Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a funny and tragic little story of children in the West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories...
...History, which devoted 1,183 detail-packed pages to the brief but politically stormy period 1848-56. Five more volumes are to come. Bernard De Voto's Across the Wide Missouri covered another brief period, 1833-38, dealt lovingly, almost lyrically, with the American fur trade, the Rocky Mountain trappers and their breath-taking country. Mason Wade, biographer of Francis Parkman, did a good job in finding, and carefully editing, the historian's missing Journals...