Word: patagonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troupe of Patagonian jugglers would have received a warmer welcome from the Kremlin. Not a single Soviet reporter or photographer was on hand when the men from Peking appeared at Moscow airport; Pravda did not even mention their arrival. After months of invective, accusations and counteraccusations, the great confrontation between Soviet and Chinese Party delegations was finally at hand. East and West watched the showdown-or what could be seen of it-with equal fascination...
...Eliot to Kenneth Patchen. He is not only the Buddha of the beatniks, but Lawrence Durrell asserts that ''American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what he has done." He has been called, or called himself a "saint." "Caliban," "a one-man band," a "Patagonian." As to what Patagonian means in the Miller context, the only source seems to be Poet Karl Shapiro, who introduces this U.S. edition in the characteristic style of the muddled and ecstatic cultist: "What is a Patagonian? I don't know, but it is certainly something rare...
Newspapers, including Buenos Aires' Clarin, genially kidded the government about the sub for a while. But as more than 30 planes and a dozen warships flailed Golfo Nuevo to foam with showers of depth charges, as troops in full battle dress moved up to the bleak Patagonian shoreline, as the Puerto Madryn air and naval base at the gulf's head went on a war footing, as U.S. planes rushed emergency equipment to the scene, the skeptics stopped in mid-snicker. Most important of all, President Arturo Frondizi took it seriously, and presumably the navy would not dare...
There was not a scintilla of hard evidence to indicate what a submarine would be doing prowling around the desolate Patagonian coast or to suggest its nationality, except that the U.S. and British Ambassadors promptly disclaimed ownership. Sonar can confuse submarines with whales, old wrecks, even underseas prominences. Most of the world still waited for the Argentine navy to produce a real-life submarine. If it does, the reward may be the biggest appropriations...
...tiny Arauca Indian village of Chimpay perches high and inaccessible in the Patagonian Andes, on the border between Argentina and Chile, and the Seventh-day Adventist missionary who made his way up to it one day in 1935 must have rejoiced to be bringing religion to so remote a cranny of the world. He could only have been amazed at what he found: a community of Indians who had no Bible and could not read it if they had, although they observed the Sabbath and' knew much of Moses' teaching. He settled among them for several months, pieced...