Word: sections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several awards, and Demarest has continued with his defensive cooking. Like any active chef, Demarest keeps several pots boiling at once, and that goes for his writing too. With reporting from Georgia Harbison, he confected the three-page story on Manhattan's new Citicorp Center in the Environment section...
...term bill is not the proper fundraising arena for student interest groups whether or not they are supported by the majority. I am sure that Harvard could reduce the term bill itself by running an advertising section on the term bill--but this would be highly improper. A term bill should reflect only the University's (and not some organization's) charges for matriculating at Harvard...
...MIDDLE SECTION, "What They Were Hunting For," is the least satisfying part of the book. The "hunt" is for a new state capital, to replace the inaccesible town of Juneau. The politicians and businessmen of Anchorage an Fairbanks have ruled out each other's cities, because each group wants the new honor that it, the resulting power and additional revenue additional revenue to fall on its own city. With literally no alternate choices, the politicians decide to build a new capital, grimly citing the example of Brasilia, a city built in the wilderness because "various parts of Brazil despise...
...People in the region of the upper Yukon refer to their part of Alaska as 'the country' "McPhee explains at the start of the final section, which shares the book's title. "A stranger appearing among them is said to have 'come into the country."' The fact is, almost every white person in the country has been such a stranger at one time or another. In Eagle (population 100), the town McPhee focuses on in the last half of the book, you can count on one hand the adults who are native born. The rest have arrived at some point...
This last section of the book is the least structured. The narrative jumps back and forth from the people of Eagle, to McPhee's solo trek one night across the grizzly-infested tundra to an Indian village adjacent to Eagle. McPhee has at times been criticized for being too organized, too refined, and the freedom he allows himself here is particularly impressive, is warm, human journalism and McPhee's style is an acknowledgement that Alaska cannot be organized into tidy, easily digested sections...