Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down on mountain slopes far south of the Mason-Dixon line-in Tennessee and New Mexico, in North Carolina and most lately in Missouri. Deep in the Ozarks, a resort called (with some fanfare) TanTarA has a ski lodge, complete with a 1,700-ft. T-bar and four rope tows, only 175 miles from St. Louis and 160 miles from Kansas City...
...stronger than ever from every disaster to dance the delirious unremitting dance of life. "Zorba!" the young man cries, "teach me to dance!" The old man rises up, his eyes alight. "You lack madness, my friend," Zorba says softly. "A man must be a little mad to cut the rope-and be free!" A little mad, the young man begins to dance...
...Time is important to me!" the trapped man cries angrily as he charges up the palisades of sand that rise on all sides; they collapse and almost bury him. Undaunted, he climbs the rope that lowers supplies into the pit; when the rope is released, he drops 30 feet and almost breaks his neck. Frustrated on all sides, he turns upon the woman his rage to live. He possesses her, unaware at first that in grappling with the woman he is also grappling with the reality she represents: the appalling predicament...
...over the rim of the pit. In a matter of days it would drown the house and anyone in it. So every night and all night long, while the wind lies still and the air is cool, the woman shovels sand into buckets and sends the buckets up the rope. If no sand comes out of the pit, she explains, no food will be sent back in return. The man is aghast. "Don't you feel that all this is meaningless?" he asks. "Moving sand to live, living to move sand...
...dark night, with the help of a rope he has woven and a grappling hook he has made, the man at last escapes from the pit. Free! In rapture he races aimlessly among the big black dunes. In horror he feels the sand give way beneath his feet. He has escaped from one pit only to fall into another-a pit of quicksand! "Help!" he screams. "Help!" His life is saved but his freedom is lost; the men who pull him out of the quicksand put him back in the pit. In blank hatred he stares at the sand...