Word: pined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skiers considered themselves blood brothers, shared racing wax and car racks, casually draped parkas over pine boughs by the trail, and stacked their skis in the nearest snowdrift. Today, all that has changed. With 4,000,000 enthusiasts crowding into 1,200 ski areas, the sport's open-hearth atmosphere has taken on a decided chill...
...mildly surprised to find that he could sometimes be straightforward and lucid, as in his Nobel Prize Speech of 1950 ("I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail"). Far less inspiring, however, was Faulkner's commencement address to the 1953 graduating class at the Pine Manor Junior College in Wellesley, Mass. The talk is so gauze-wrapped with mystical abstractions about man and his condition that the poor students must have stumbled away from it in a stupor. The essays, too, are recommended only for veterans of the quagmires who may still have their hip boots...
Snake Ration. At Fort Jackson last week, Sergeant Woodrow Weaver, a Viet Nam veteran, faced his class, unbuttoned his shirt and casually pulled out a writhing northern pine snake. "Any time you are going through the jungle and come across a nonpoisonous snake," he advised, "pick him up and put him in your shirt. If you find yourself without food, pull him out and eat him." A poisonous snake can also be eaten, said Weaver, "if you cut his head off just below the poison sacs." Pointing out that rattlesnake meat is "considered a great delicacy" (it sells...
...mile-long island, which lies just 105 miles southeast of Nice, is little more than scenery. The snow-topped mountainous spine of Corsica is traversed only by a Toonerville-style railroad, the Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering of new apartments is rising beyond the old perimeter...
Athens prides itself on being the birthplace of classical Western sculpture. What would be more natural thought Tony Spiteris, 55, Greek president of the International Association of Art Critics, than for Athens to have an international sculpture show? The pine-studded Hill of Muses provided a magnificent outdoor setting and the Acropolis a challenging background. With the backing of the National Tourist Organization of Greece, Critic Spiteris rounded up works by 66 of the world's leading sculptors...