Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northwest's turbulent Snake River is one of the last great U.S. river valleys still unexploited for hydroelectric power. For 125 miles along the Idaho-Oregon boundary line, the Snake tumbles through an almost inaccessible, rocky gorge called Hell's Canyon (see map), where it drops almost twelve feet in every mile. For control of this vast hydroelectric potential, public and private power interests in the power-short Northwest have been fighting for almost five years...
...early September speeches, like "On the Nature of Liberalism" (New York City) and "On Political Morality" (Los Angeles) were written before the real fighting began. They are more philosophy than politics. But as the campaign became more bitter, as he was pulled off his podium into the political snake pit, the quality slips. Only a few times in the last few weeks could he match his first efforts. Perhaps he came closest in the Mormon Tabernacle on October 14, where he said...
...rain. Defiant, Frut begins to wonder whether the Sages are really so sage. In anger, Frut argues in public that maybe tablelanders and creekers actually are equal. Rushed into jail and to trial, Frut refuses to recant about the Thing, and is sentenced to be eaten by Sarass the snake...
...fastidious snake god refuses to eat him because Frut has been touched by human hands. Instead, he tells Frut the way to the Blue Cape, a lizard Utopia where tablelanders and creekers live together in sweet reasonableness. After a harrowing journey across sun-baked flatlands, Frut gets to the classless paradise...
After some elder has hidden the effigy, village women and children brandishing sticks and kitchen knives search the villages, crying, "Qui bo' li?" (where is he hiding?). Then entire populations, including stiff-jointed ancients and bare-bottomed small fry, join in the Ra Ra processions that snake out into the countryside, laughing and joking and singing creole chants to the accompaniment of throbbing tambours and booming vaccines (huge bamboo pipes that give off hollow, resonant notes when blown). Waving clubs, machetes and old colonial swords, they thrash through the ravines and cane-brakes, and if by chance they first...