Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIKE many Presidents, Richard Nixon always seems a bit happier, a bit more relaxed, when he gets away from Washington. For him it is not the exuberant, back-to-the-soil renewal that Lyndon Johnson experienced returning to the Pedernales. In Nixon's case it is the easier routine, the escape from the alien East, the chance to be among the people, away from a balky bureaucracy and a fractious Congress...
...film picks up where Hawaii left off; Whip Hoxworth (this time played by Heston) returns home to find that his dead grandfather has willed him 85,000 measly acres of Hawaiian soil. Hoxworth promptly heads for French Guiana to steal some pineapples to plant. A lovely Chinese girl (Tina Chen) helps the fruit to flourish, and Hoxworth soon has most of the island on the Dole...
...tradition did not grow from the soil. It was simply laid on the newly-discovered ground with the hope that it would take root. Mean- while, the kingdoms of production- Iron and steel among them- dug into the dirt and took over the garden like weeds. American business became extremely pragmatic, and consequently could no longer find purpose in the tradition...
...Loren Fisher, tells of a "God of nature" as well as the more frequently emphasized "God of history." This God abhors pagan nature worship, but he decrees that all creation is good and holds his servant, man, accountable for what happens to it. Scripture even urges the practice of soil conservation (Leviticus 25: 2-5), kindness to animals (Exodus 23: 12) and preservation of trees (Deuteronomy...
...slow and unguent Aquarium seemed like treading through Louisiana in the earliest morning, interrupting the scudding smokes of the rousing heat and resolute dry plants, with a newspaper tucked implacably, disharmoniously under arm. There should be a sign: "Leave your newspapers at the door. Don't soil the flowers with their bleeding ink." So I stepped out of the Aquarium onto the gentle and savage bottom of another ocean, shifting with colorful creatures, some moody, some violent. I was happy in the reflection that we had the sunlight to illumine the cathedral corals as well as the virulent, striving tangles...