Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...version, and he just goes on and on, getting more bellicosely bombastic as he goes along. It still sounds stirring, as an old man's last call to battle should, but it sounds more than a little ludicrous, too. It's like a parody out of some '30s pacifist tract, some embarrassingly guileless Johnny Got His Gun. But Ives was entirely serious, and he stayed that...
...Harry S. Truman Library (library and museum, that is) occupies a single large and dignified U-shaped building on a beautifully landscaped tract of 14 acres in Independence, Missouri--Truman's hometown. Independence was a boom town in the first half of the 19th century, one of the major outfitting centers for wagon trains heading west. By the turn of the century, it had become an agricultural and livestock center. Today, although Independence is steadily being pulled into the vortex of metropolitan Kansas City, its center remains a prosperous, pleasant county seat...
...Presidential Library is on the Hoover Historic Site in West Branch, Iowa, where Herbert Hoover was born in 1874, one of three children of the village blacksmith. This eastern part of Iowa is lovely, rolling, fertile farm country, and the historic site itself is a beautifully maintained 180 acre tract with open land, trees, and a meandering stream. The gravesites of Herbert Hoover and his wife, simple granite monuments, are on a wooded knoll. The village of West Branch, with a population of only 1300, seems to merge into the park-like site...
...process of obtaining a tract of land and becoming a "somebody," Duddy's eagerness to be accepted evokes our pity, while his childlike audacity endears him to us. His fawning over customers as a waiter in a Catskills-like resort is understandable in light of his enthusiastic desire to please. His abominable treatment of his girlfriend seems pardonable when he describes to her how beautiful it will be when he finally gets the land he yearns...
...moves along the snake's digestive tract, it makes a bulge, just as the boom babies are causing a traveling bulge in the economy and social life of the country. Some social scientists, for example, attribute the student riots and other disruptions of the late '60s to the sheer numbers of adolescents who abruptly appeared on the scene...