Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rose, out the window of the dining car of the California Zephyr as it leaves Salt Lake City behind and makes for the mountains. The tables are full of people ignoring their breakfast, a comment less on the quality of the food than on the galactic beauty of the scene outside. Vinson and his wife Lois are on their way home to Memphis the long, old-fashioned way: across the Rockies to Chicago, then south on the City of New Orleans. Every inch, every jolt, every valley is familiar to him and much loved, for when he retired with...
...scene is central to the iconography of the cold war: one December day in 1948 on his Westminster, Md., farm, Whittaker Chambers retrieved from a hollowed-out pumpkin a microfilm that implicated former State Department Official Alger Hiss in the passing of Government secrets to the Soviets. Last week Interior Secretary Donald Hodel proposed that Chambers' farm be listed in the National Register of Historic Places. White House Speechwriter Anthony Dolan had relayed to Hodel a conversation with President Reagan during which the President quoted from memory long passages of Chambers' 1952 autobiography, Witness...
Arsonists set fire to a creche in the Cambridge Common the night after Christmas and nailed a sparrow and anonymous anti-religious message to the remains of the Nativity scene...
...vandals also nailed a dead sparrow, beef tongue and sign, reading, "When will you people realize that your gods are dead?" to the Nativity scene, Gelinas said. The sign was created with anonymous news-paper letters and the word "dead" was outlined in red, he added...
...American Scene...