Word: mountains
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Once again, I have failed to attend the World's Largest Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed. I am ashamed of myself. Where is my civic pride? After all, it is amazing enough that a town of a few thousand (in a state with a population of just over a million people) has the world's largest anything. But I lost my courage, my appetite and very nearly my status as a citizen of Eagle...
...feel it particularly in Cezanne's series of landscapes of his "sacred mountain," Mont Sainte-Victoire. Now it is a mere shimmer of profile in a watercolor, whose blank paper becomes the white light of the Midi, burning through the pale flecks of color. Elsewhere, in the late oils, it achieves a tremendous faceted density, that crouched lion of rock. In between there are lyrical tributes to it, as in Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue, 1882-85, where it appears almost shyly on the left of a tender, early springtime landscape, all new green, traversed by an aqueduct (sign...
...class was totally fractured," MacPherson says. "It was all screwed up." He says he moved into Wigglesworth in the fall of 1942, then lived in Adams House until he joined the Tenth Mountain Division that winter...
...winter of 1942-43, MacPherson decided to stop waiting. A recruiter from the Tenth Mountain ski troop came to Kirkland House to encourage Harvard men to volunteer, looking for anyone with either skiing or rock-climbing experience, and MacPherson joined...
...Crandall would spend the next four years together in the Tenth Mountain...