Word: shoveled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When digging of the Peking-Tientsin canal reached a point a few blocks away from our school we spent our work days with pick and shovel and bamboo carrying-poles. Later, we went to plant trees as part of a barricade against the fierce winds of North China, helped the people in a nearby village clear their fields of corn stalks, and finally spent a week in a commune, helping farmers dig a reservoir that would double as a fish-breeding pond...
There are places in Brazil, that troubled but rich giant, where just scuffing a shovel in the dirt might produce treasures to dream about. To prove it, communities like Diamantina, Turmalina, Esmeralda, Ametista dot the country. Last week the scene was Cristalina (pop. 3,800), an interior town some 60 miles south of Brasilia, once the center of a fabulous quartz-crystal boom and now devoted largely to agriculture and cattle raising...
...country roads, 21 football fields, 40 parks, 36 canals, 21 reservoirs, 65 community centers, 48 churches and chapels. With his flair for the dramatic, Belaunde gave the program a lift just before his 51st birthday in October 1963, asking Peruvians to forget about the birthday baubles. "Just send me shovels," he said. Shovels he got-plus machetes, picks and hoes by the thousands, all of which went to the highlands. A few weeks ago, Belaunde invited a group of Indians to Lima and awarded them a small golden shovel. In one year, they had built an airstrip, dozens of classrooms...
There seemed no end to Duchamp's antic art. He hung a snow shovel, announced that it was a "readymade" work of art, and whimsically called it In Advance of a Broken Arm. He filled a bird cage with marble sugar lumps and titled it Why Not Sneeze. He made viewers dizzy with swirling patterns driven by electric motors, shocked gallerygoers with a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch, brought critics up short by stating that his grand design, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, on which he worked from 1915 to 1923, was intentionally left unfinished...
Like Sisyphus, doomed to his meaningless life of pushing the boulder up the mountain, The Woman and her man, must shovel each night knowing that the constant sand slides make it a never-ending task, and they finally emerge absurd heroes in their own way. As Sisyphus must be imagined happy, so too are man and woman revealed as not digging sand to live but living to dig sand...