Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a good week to catch the kind of lectures you've always meant to go to but never did because the names didn't ring enough bells to draw you away from whatever else you were doing. Only ocean freaks and hardcore liberal politicos will be drawn by honchos in their fields this week, but there are plenty more obscure luminaries (contradiction in terms?) to keep things interesting...
...ANGELES: Pilots complain about the L.A. Airport's nightly noise-abatement procedures, which require planes to land and take off over the ocean, where visibility is often obscured by fog banks. Observes one veteran pilot: "L.A. Airport is a disaster waiting to happen." Though the airport has cut back on over-ocean landings and installed new instrument-landing systems for runway approaches, some pilots still fear that they may set down in the water...
...ocean was quiet
...music ("The doctor almost gave me up/ Till I heard that music/ Then I started to move") and touched objects ("This powder puff makes me think of your hair"). For one workshop, Koch and Farrell brought sea shells, seaweed and bags of sand to elicit sea poems ("I, the ocean/ So huge/ So powerful/ So rich"). Says Koch of his props: "The residents lived in such a deprived environment that if you brought in anything, they'd be inspired." By the final workshops, the students had progressed to more subtle subjects, such as their secret dreams and memories...
...Miklos Petrovics, 40, seized two employees of a Culver City, Calif, branch of Bank America, demanded that the bank's air be filtered through bird seed, that the manager "cleanse himself in the ocean" and that "everyone join hands, walk to the ocean and meditate." Result: an FBI agent talked him into surrendering...