Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Yard there is a statue of the founder of this University. That statue was placed there by workers. The buildings of Harvard were constructed, the trees were pulled down, the land was ploughed up and foundations were put in by workers. Workers were here long before the vast bureaucracy of managers and administrators. When will we obtain the right to be heard, to be consulted on issues that affect our lives? When will we take our rightful place as members of the Harvard community...
...past ten years, some 1,150 golf courses have been built in the South, where some of the finest tournaments -including the Masters-are held every year. With a vast expanse of coastline (2,911 miles), an abundance of streams and a proliferation of man-made lakes, upcountry and coastal folk alike have as much access to water sports-fishing, boating, diving, skiing-as fabled Californians (about one-third of all the nation's outboard motors are owned by Southerners). Forest-product firms that have made loblolly pine a prime component of pulp and paper have also greened...
...midst of change that is vast and dramatic, the South has emerged from the political cocoon in which it was long imprisoned. But the transformation is still in transition...
Fading Manners. Southern writers did not form a school. The works they produced were far less of a piece than is usually imagined. Welly's gentle, loving Mississippians live at a vast remove from Faulkner's tormented, often tormenting souls. Many Southern writers, in fact, have chafed at being pigeonholed as such. Flannery O'Connor, a Catholic whose brilliant short stories lacerated characters to get at their souls, once said flatly, "I'm interested in the old Adam. He just talks Southern because I do." But when her native land was ridiculed, she snapped, "When...
...none of this compares in sheer impact and shock power with the South's mass export of human beings. Beginning earlier and accelerating during World War II, for more than two decades they moved north and west by the millions, black and white. The blacks constituted the vast majority, the greatest ethnic migration in American history. And they were Southern, too, perhaps the most quintessentially Southern of all. The North was confronted by a Southern invasion vaster by far than any General Lee ever mounted...