Word: regional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deeply Troubled. Virginia's countryside was indeed something to love last week. In the Shenandoah Valley, apples clustered rich and red in Senator Harry Byrd's vast orchards near Berryville. In the famed Tidewater region, haze shimmered blue over sparkling crystal estuaries. In the west, the beech's first gold and the oak's first russet welcomed autumn from the Appalachian crests. In the tangled Wilderness, dusk cast early purple shadows round Lindsay Almond's family farm land...
...tutor. Nabokov's Dozen lacks Lolita's pun-prone pyrotechnics. But it shares with it Nabokov's fascinating gift for translating the machine-tooled commonplaces of U.S. life into a surreal landscape of fantasy, a kind of Poe-like, gadget-haunted region of Weir. Thus a soda-fountain stool violently revolves into a "tall mushroom," a newly screwed-in electric bulb lights up with "the hideous instancy of a dragon's egg hatching in one's bare hand." It is the strength of Nabokov's imagination that makes the characters in these stories live...
...Levi is a north Italian, but he is one of the few writers alive who can bring Sicily to the printed page without losing a scrap of myth, beauty and horror. In Christ Stopped at Eboli (TIME, May 5, 1947), Levi dealt with life in Lucania, an even poorer region, and the book brought him such fame that he now writes with a special sense of mission about the Italian poor. His weaknesses are 1) too much self-consciousness in his pleading, 2) too little skepticism respecting the left. Yet few will read Author Levi's Impressions of Sicily...
...Effort. Archaeologists were sure that the ruins of Sardis would prove extremely interesting, but they could not excavate them because they did not know exactly where the Lydian Sardis stood. The whole Sardis region, 45 miles inland from Turkey's modern Izmir, is cluttered with Greek, Roman and Christian ruins. When diggers explored this relatively common stuff they did not find Lydian Sardis under it. This summer, a joint Harvard-Cornell expedition led by Professor George Hanfmann of Harvard, made another effort. Last week came the announcement that the site of Lydian Sardis has finally been found...
...diggers found the ruins of a luxurious Roman house that seems to have been the mansion of a rich Christian bishop. Under its floor was what they were seeking: a large mass of broken pottery of Lydian manufacture. Nothing like it had ever been found in the Sardis region, so Professor Hanfmann is reasonably sure that he has found the deeply buried site of the Lydian city...