Word: mountaintop
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...savior in whom this earnest vision burns is a prosperous Jewish horse trader named Balaban. He buys an old mountaintop hotel, formerly a monastery, near Vienna and issues a prospectus promising horseback riding, swimming, and the painless eradication of embarrassing gestures and ugly accents. And soon the place is filled with aging Jews of both sexes who have become burdens to their assimilated children...
Things get worse in the mountaintop hostel; the men who descend to the village to buy provisions are beaten up regularly. Yet no one thinks this strange; no one seems to be afflicted by a foreboding of doom. The book ends flatly, without the customary distant rumbling of a world's end and with no sense of cautionary exhortation by the author. Any such message-that tribalistic savagery is mankind's eternal, bone-bred evil, perhaps-would be excessive. Appelfeld simply and affectingly bears witness, and in the end, his sole, muted voice is more effective than...
That relentless quest for self-knowledge has led her to the Masai tribe of Africa, the mountaintop villagers of Bhutan, the Indians of Peru, often on the spur of the moment. She explains, "I would make a beeline out of the country in an effort to find myself I would clarify my value system by plunging into a different one." She regarded her career at times as a nuisance. "I was most interested in working out my own identity, and the characters I played took away from that," she says. "Now that I am happier, my desire for travel...
...feed herself out of serving bowls, using serving utensils, apparently without a thought for the hygiene of the other people in the room. For all her years of searching, she does not present a consistent image of herself: she insists that she is shy, lazy and "made for a mountaintop," but explains her frenzied schedule by saying, "I just have to do other things, I don't know...
That presence in Honduras already includes 57 U.S. Air Force technicians who man a radar station on a mountaintop 23 miles southeast of Tegucigalpa. In operation only since last month, it was ostensibly erected to monitor some 55 U.S. military support flights in and out of Honduras each month. In fact, the unit's radar can watch air traffic above all of Nicaragua and El Salvador...