Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visits to the Southwest and the Mexican desert gradually became the spine of Castaneda's life. Impressed by his work, the U.C.L.A. staff offered him encouragement. Recalls Professor Meighan: "Carlos was the type of student a teacher waits for." Sociology Professor Harold Garfinkel, one of the fathers of ethnomethodology, gave Castaneda constant stimulus and harsh criticism. After his first peyote experience (August 1961), Castaneda presented Garfinkel with a long "analysis" of his visions. "Garfinkel said, 'Don't explain to me. You are a nobody. Just give it to me straight and in detail, the way it happened. The richness...
...hardworking, tithing Stelle members have already put aside a half-million dollars for their survival city, where they will share all property and labor. In the flat Ford County farm land southwest of Kankakee, they have bought 320 acres and obtained necessary zoning permits. A woodworking factory is already in operation. Members are putting up other buildings on weekends. Ford County (pop. 16,000) does not know it yet, but according to the Stelle timetable the community is scheduled to be 10,000 strong by the mid-1970s, when the rest of U.S. civilization is expected to disintegrate...
...lettuce alone that brings the United Farmworkers picketers with their leaflets and black eagles and "Boycott Lettuce" signs to the icy sidewalks and the icier stares of the produce manager; the real reaons begin the brown earth of the Southwest with the brown hands that cultivate it. They are not the hands of the small family farmer whose sturdy pride we romantically recall, nor do they hold stock in the huge conglomerates that employ them. The four million workers who cultivate our winter vegetables are a rural proletariat whose living and working conditions sound like passages from an outdated muckraking...
Brown, a 33-year-old lawyer, was serving his second term in the state legislature, and six others sought the fourth district seat vacated by the retirement of Charles Griffin. The district, 12 counties in southwest Mississippi, has about 202,000 voters, a third of them black. It contains Hinds County, site of the state capital and home of 40 per cent of the district's voters, and Jefferson County, political stronghold of Charles Evers...
...baffled by and suspicious of Eastern intellectuals and especially Harvard men. A story he told and always with loud laughter was that when he had gathered his top men in the Cabinet room there were Rhodes scholars, men from Harvard, Phi Beta Kappas-and one boy from Southwest Texas State Teachers College...