Word: outdoors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he has run the mile ?? of times. Colburn has not run ?? fast competition, and his times than most of the other IC4A ?? His best indoor time is 4:11?? best outdoor is 4:07.2, which...
...lives in Manhattan, a city in which outdoor pay telephones are used as urinals. He judges that Manhattan has come to exceed Naples or Salonika in the fluorescence of its decay. But the fact neither dismays nor gratifies him. It is his belief, in fact, that people have grown too fond of "the tragic accents of their condition." They use the upset of former respectabilities to justify silliness, shallowness, distemper, lust. He has seen worse than fouled phone booths...
...contempt for his countrymen still seethes, this time because they are corruptly devoted to cars, tape recorders and neon "WELLCOME" signs at airports. Baako, his fragile hero, cannot adjust to such trinket worship. His sister's premature baby dies when the family too quickly presents it at an outdoor festival because they are anxious for the traditional gifts of money. At his job as a writer for Ghana-vision, he finds that there are only funds enough to buy TV sets for big shots and to produce documentaries glorifying the country's President. A truck driver he encounters...