Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Change as Ruin. In Torregreca, no undue sentimentality was shown on either side. By 1959, beneath her Poughkeepsie patina, Miss Cornelisen had become a five-year veteran of Southern Italy, working for a British charity called the Save the Children Fund, bent on setting up nursery centers in recalcitrant mountain villages. Torregreca was the intended scene of her greatest triumph: a new master center where teachers could be developed and experiments initiated. Thus trained and dedicated, she soon found that the town's aura of Romantic gilt was misleading...
...pensions and a highway department scandal can have an unsettling effect on a legislature. Last week, however, lawgivers of the sovereign state of Oklahoma laid aside these minor matters to concentrate on a historic decision. Without a dissenting nay, the assembly decreed that the collared lizard, known as "the mountain boomer" amid the hills of Ouachita and Wichita, will henceforth be designated as the Sooner State's official reptile...
...pressures in simple camping, hiking and horseback riding away from the asphalt wastelands of Southern California. You would "improve" this Shangri-la by callously jamming 81/2 miles of superhighway through a wild section of Sequoia National Park, set aside for posterity in 1890, Then you would transform the tiny mountain valley into a parking lot and Disneyland extravaganza for crowd-loving socialites. This is a great cure for Mineral King's special quiet charm, which had until now miraculously escaped being ruined by "developers." So let us get on with your "well-planned development" and stamp out the last...
...Esalen, the sudden and over-whelming knowledge had come to the boy, when he was climbing up the mountain, that he had his breathing. "I am safe in my breathing." And he laughed and laughed because it was that easy. Until the very moment of death, he would always be safe in his breathing, always secure. He could always take a deep breath and say, "I am safe there, that is my breathing, that is my life, that is me." His breathing was his anchor, it was his starting point. And he thought that it was not by coincidence that...
...slogans of Esalen's five-day Sunday to Friday "More Joy" workshop is that "Joy comes on Thursday." The boy had climbed the mountain on Tuesday. He felt together, strong, whole far out. He did not know that more there was. He thought joy had already come, so he settled down to wait for Thursday...