Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choked Delaware River on Dec. 25, 1776, and went on to rout the Christmas-dazed Hessians in Trenton, N.J. Indeed it has become a bit too famous, in the view of many residents of Hopewell Township, N.J. (current population 12,000), where Washington came ashore. They fear vast armies of Americans will mark the Bicentennial by descending on their rural area, which is the home of Washington Crossing State Park. Local estimates are that as many as 4 million visitors may come...
...introduction in the 1950s, it first invaded the air waves in force during the 1973 oil embargo, when speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of radar traps. In the past year, the vogue has spread to a vast and vocal number of private-car owners, who have tied into a short-wave system* that today links an estimated 6 million radio sets. For most of its users, the CB system has become a new information-and-entertainment radio network of the road...
...mention the undying appetite for Oriental carpets, one could hardly say that Islamic art is unfamiliar to Americans. Yet the ceramics and glasswork, the architecture and mural decoration, the metalwork and (except for Mughal miniatures) the paintings that form the relics of this vast imperial culture are much less known to museumgoers than their equivalents from Japan or China...
...rendering substance−bronze, stucco, tile or parchment−almost immaterial. This was no less true of relatively small objects like a 13th century Syrian canteen in silver inlaid brass (see color page), with its elaborate conflation of Islamic and Christian imagery arranged in dense concentric bands, than of vast architectural projects like the tile-work of the Alhambra in Granada. It is hard−perhaps impossible−to hold the entire pattern in one's mind, even when looking...
This is exciting stuff, but Stone fleshes it out with far too much flabby imagining about the Schliemanns' domestic tensions. Will Sophia produce a son for Henry? Will she endure his abundant eccentricities? Will she put up with the vast marble mansion he builds for himself in Athens...