Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entomologists, last year's drought killed wasps, robber flies and other predators that regularly dine on grasshoppers and their eggs. Then a moderately moist winter kept the eggs that were laid last fall from drying out, and a mild spring provided plenty of nourishing vegetation. Thus a vast progeny of grasshoppers was born...
Almost lost in the corner of one particularly vast floor, a number of tables of plants bask under fluorescent lamps. "The only water-powered African violet farm in the world," MacArthur announces with a mock-grand wave of the hand to introduce the domain of Cliff Shafer. A big, soft-spoken man with kindly "Please grow" eyes, Shafer patiently fights the presence of mildew on his gloxinia and mill cats in his potting soil. In Maine, the greenhouse, which costs about twelve times as much to heat as comparable space in a factory, is a faltering institution. Shafer can easily...
...theme of this year's Biennale-that vast, sprawling international conspectus of current art that opens at irregular intervals in the public gardens of Venice and is one of the city's main tourist attractions-is "Dalla Natura All'Arte, Dall'Arte Alla Natura" (from nature to art, from art to nature). Appropriately, then, the star of the 1978 press week was not an artist but an animal...
...most human of all movements, the family. She visits dozens of them around the country: a matriarchal black clan in Indiana, a tribe of patriarchal Greeks in Massachusetts, a conglomerate of patricians in Manhattan. There are Jewish families dispersed in the South and Midwest, farm families plowed over by vast interstate highway systems, single-parent families, and homes where both parents are homosexual. There are also extranuclear families-communes, and open households- whose relationships and attitudes often seem like exotic and short-lived particles created in cyclotrons. A band in Texas "went up in a blaze of sexual hyperactivity...
...immediately after victory; all shooting after a war should be done within six months. He did not like the Nuremberg trials either. But the trials had been Roosevelt's idea. As he talked about Roosevelt, his own admiration and exasperation came through. He picked out Roosevelt's vast geographical knowledge as the President's most extraordinary quality, and then, with irritation, spoke of the difficulty of pinning Roosevelt down to specifics. the stubbornness of Roosevelt, his own inability to get clear instruction from him. We finally sat down to lunch and Grover said flatly that since...