Word: vastness
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...indoor sports arena. For Demarest, going to Louisiana was a kind of homecoming: his family has lived in New Orleans for three centuries. ∙ Before writing his impressions of Micronesia for NATION, Hong Kong Correspondent David DeVoss made a 17,500-mile, 17-day odyssey through America's vast aqueous empire. He had first visited the Pacific during the early '70s while commuting to two brief tours in Viet Nam and remembered the islands as "a frontier where tedium and pleasure competed for men's souls." Those territories today, he found, are suddenly facing very modern social...
President Carter has taken a personal interest in the vast U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which is made up of 2,141 Micronesian islands spread over an area as large as the U.S. itself. He has declared that the 115,000 people of the area, administered by Washington as a "strategic trust," should have the right of self-determination. Talks toward that end between U.S. officials and island representatives have been going on for six years, but now the full prestige of the Oval...
...Carter visited New Delhi on New Year's Day, India's most celebrated political leader was conspicuously absent from the receiving line of dignitaries. In a characteristically flamboyant maneuver to steal the presidential show, Indira Gandhi appeared across town to harangue 5,000 people assembled under a vast, multicolored tent. Ostensibly, the meeting was a convention of India's Congress Party. In fact, it was a gathering of party rebels reinforced by a motley crew of men hired to provide applause for the discredited former Prime Minister...
...years, peace and prosperity reigned over the vast borough. Middle class values pursued in middle class ways provided a standard ethos uniting people of different ethnic origins, income levels and political persuasions. Brooklyn has absorbed masses of immigrants through the years, starting with the Russian and Polish Jews who fled the poverty and anti-Semitism of their homelands. This group in turn absorbed the immigrants who followed them from Europe and Asia with nary an intolerant word. But to this group--by tradition overwhelmingly liberal, Democratic, tolerant--the most recent population influx is a horse of a different color...
...Belgian-born Sinologist argues persuasively that China, far from being a classless society, is a tyranny ruled by a privileged clique of bureaucrats and generals. Coming into the Country by John McPhee. Three lengthy bulletins on Alaska, handcrafted out of diligent reporting and a supple style, magically transform this vast, nearly unspoiled area into a state of mind. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh edited by Michael Davie. One of the century's great novelists discloses incidents in his life (among them the death of a child and a crucial stint as a public school teacher) that...