Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thirsting arroyo, brief and fearful potential, one can run across any land easiest in the arroyos-the length greater, but the water does it because it is the only way-if not meander, then a tacking against and with gravity, for the integrity of the land, journey to an ocean, the long way home, surprising, brief use of the arroyos, except for slight rains and sudden floods, they exist for the time when the snow has melted in the mountains, then they fill and rush by coolness in the heat of summer in their dry redness-sudden arteries waiting empty...
...geographical America, claimed everything behind the footprints, and we thought we had it. But we had just reached a limit-a dangerous accomplishment at any time-and had no idea of the responsibility. We had a country with lines simply drawn in on the map-the Pacific, an ocean not a state, asked slightly difficult questions to a people not yet breathless from the sprint over hills and valleys between plains. They stopped, but couldn't accept the absence of a finish line. America began to exist when she realized she had changed after the Revolutionary War for Independence...
Investigators at Harvard have found that chemical pollutants seriously cripple the capacity of marine bacteria to find food, and so may threaten the essential role of bacteria in the ocean food chain...
...dreamed there was an Emperor Antony," Shakespeare's Cleopatra soliloquizes after his death. "His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm crested the world; his voice was propertied ... as all the tuned spheres. Think you there was, or might be, such a man as this I dream...
Aranson seems almost to have been born on the wharves of Nan tucket. He walks with sea legs. The floorboards become a deck, rolling under his feet with the long, steady rhythm of an ocean swell. There are fogs, stars, spars and billowing sails in his voice...