Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than four months, Dwight Eisenhower and his team labored over the State of the Union message. The job began last September, when the President sent out a call to heads of 20 major departments and agencies of the Federal Government. From the mountain of data that poured in, the White House staff distilled a 15,000-word rough draft. Then, line by line, President Eisenhower knifed through it with his sharp yellow pencil, suggesting, rewriting, calling for more new facts. The process went on at the White House, then in the little office in Georgia above the pro shop...
Dreams on the Mountain. Each of the chosen actors of the Lycovrissi Passion is instructed by the priest to fix his mind on his coming role. Manolios, the Christus, is the first to find his mind divided. He lifts his thoughts to sacred things, but his fiancee, panting for marriage, keeps bringing him back to the earthy. Manolios retreats to a mountain and meditates, only to find the Lycovrissi Magdalen dancing through his dreams...
While Manolios is wrestling with himself on the mountain and winning, the townspeople wrestle with their collective conscience and lose. A starving band of refugees, uprooted by the Turks from another village, appear at the gates of Lycovrissi and plead for bread and a chance to start new lives in the town. But, led by their priest himself, the people of Lycovrissi hoot the newcomers off to a barren neighboring hill, where they settle miserably in caves...
Death at the Altar. But Manolios has been growing into his role. Down from the mountain he comes, to confess the murder and give his life for the village. When the real murderer is exposed, Manolios, reprieved, takes up the cause of the cave-dwelling refugees. When he persuades others to side with the refugees-including a rich man's son who gives the family estates away to them-the priest and elders are wildly incensed...
...meet Manolo, the street boy, in a bar, and as Manolo looks at the girl, there shines in his eyes "something innocent, hopeless and impossible." Aguado takes them for a drive in his car. In the sierra above Madrid, he smashes the car against the rock wall of the mountain and kills Carmen and himself. As he dies, he thinks, "Everything is useless, absolutely everything in this world." Manolo survives. He robs Aguado's corpse of 12,000 pesetas and starts back toward Madrid on foot, thinking, "I have to live...