Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE IS A scene in Medium Cool where Martin Luther King's voice appears over a television in some hot Chicago apartment on a summer night. It is the speech about having been to the top of the mountain, and hearing that tremulous sermon again reminds me that history is a process of forgetting. The dim past surges up before us, events which had an aura that defined them are obscured. Even Vietnam is an experience, like a dream, because it exists in a moment charged with the intentions of our lives...
...songs are populated by the inevitable uxorious men, boastful lovers, and sagacious unfortunates. The song titles themselves suggest perturbable stoicism in the face of a vampire as their recurrent subject. Other possible concerns are the sexual connotations of fruits ("The Lemon Song"). the chinoiserie of the open fifth ("Black Mountain Breakdown"), and caetology ("Moby Dick...
...speech, Thieu last week journeyed into the countryside for the second time in five days. In Lam Dong province, north of Saigon, he made a presentation of land titles to two of 1,737 peasants being given acres under his accelerated land-reform program. At a stopover in the mountain resort of Dalat, he hosted a lamb barbecue for a group of foreign diplomats and journalists...
...vigorous program to curb water pollution helped him win reelection, for example, is conjectural-though it surely did help. In Aspen, Colo., on the other hand, Mayoral Candidate Eve Homeyer beat her two male opponents by promising to save "the quality of life" in the pleasant, fast-growing mountain resort...
SEVENTH DAY. The hunt was over. Deer spotted: 17. Arrows shot: 0. "Boy, those whitetail are really something," said Fred as he headed home. "They're just smarter than hell. Reminds me of the time I was hunting mountain goat in Alberta with Bud Gray, the chairman of Whirlpool. After about three hours of panting up those icy mountains, he rested on his bow and said: 'Tell me we're having fun, will...