Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mildred Kieffer's suggestion for the "bringing of California architecture to the midwest and the mountain ballads of the South to New England" is not the sort of thing to arouse a violent, crusading enthusiasm; but the other proposals in the "Progressive" should be of considerable value to the delegates at Madison and to those at Harvard who are hoping for organized student participation in the solution of future problems in "social engineering...
...billowing fire raced through tall stands of spruce, pine, oak and birch, cut westward across the brow of thickly timbered Mackenzie Mountain until it reached the little fishing hamlet of Pleasant Bay. Some of the 250 villagers escaped along famed Cabot Trail. Fishing boats, summoned before communications were cut, saved the rest. But Pleasant Bay's homes and shops, a church and hospital were ashes...
Eleanor Roosevelt, 62, had an isolated mountain snuggery to look forward to, if she wanted to accept it. The will of a 71-year-old bachelor Tennessee preacher-a stranger, and a lonely Democrat in moun-tainy, Republican Greene County-left her his two-story farmhouse and most of his 247 acres, provided she raise a modest monument over his grave. But she would have to wait to move in. The preacher's niece, thirtyish, is to have the right to live there during her lifetime...
...mountain went through an awful lot of labor, considering the results. But Father is still pleasant, solid entertainment...
Black Narcissus (Rank, Universal-International) is the curious story of some Anglican nuns who, in the interests of healing and teaching the Himalayan natives, are sent to establish a new convent in an abandoned mountain harem...