Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look for symbols, moral or religious, in Ernest Hemingway's literary works? For me, Hemingway is the foremost outdoor existentialist of the New World...
...Fantasyland-a guided tour through the Disney imagination, during which the visitor takes a ride in an airborne pirate galleon, pops through the rabbit hole into Alice's Wonderland, hops on a mining cart for a trip to the diamond mines of the Seven Dwarfs; 2) Adventureland-an outdoor museum of natural wonders, designed to complement the True-Life Adventure Films, which will offer a Tahitian village populated by real live Tahitians (peddling papaya juice), and a trip down a tropical river past nattering monkeys, gnashing crocs and yawping plastic hippos; 3) Frontierland -"a glimpse into America...
...Argentine government's running war of harassment against the Roman Catholic Church goes on, fueled by President Juan Peron's deep distaste for anything faintly resembling opposition. Last week the Interior Ministry banned a scheduled outdoor Mass and procession marking the end of the Marian Year. While a substitute indoor Mass was being celebrated at Buenos Aires' buff-colored cathedral, Peron and his top officials ostentatiously gathered at the airport to welcome Argentine Boxer Pascual Perez home from Japan, where he had won the flyweight (112-lb.) championship of the world. That same day, the Peron General...
JEAN, keen-eyed William Thon is an outdoor man with a devoted indoor following. Thon (rhymes with gone) lives in a fishing village on the coast of Maine, paints Maine's rocks, trees and seas subjectively and with intimate under standing; nature forms the architecture of his world. Thon's luxurious frame house, which he has built with his own hands, is like one room in the vast, roughhewn, sky-ceilinged mansion of his surroundings. His self-appointed task is to translate those surroundings into a few square feet of painted canvas-to bring the outdoors indoors...
...World War II, emphasis on physical fitness boosted the gym requirement to two years, with an accompanying upsurge of athletic proficiency and spirit. Girls even had to take the "step test." (Then too, the shortage of men during the war years may have contributed to the sudden revival of outdoor interests...