Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sloth-four short poems a year, and he usually throws one of them away. In his entire career he has published (aside from two youthful novels) only three books of verse, containing fewer than 100 poems. The Less Deceived, published in 1955, was the blazing eruption of a young volcano, the work of a brilliant man discovering in disorder what he could do. The Whitsun Weddings is a prepared descent into the simmering crater of middle age, the work of a mature man discovering systematically...
...open for business for the first time this year with a 4800-foot double chair and a T-bar. Andree Mead Lawrence, one of America's finest Olympic skiers, will direct the ski school. Mt. Ascutney in Windsor is a new area on the North slope of an extinct volcano with 120 acres of meticulously groomed trails up to 1 1/2 miles in length. Its double chair lift carries 900 skiers an hour on a 4700' ride up a vertical rise, while three T-bar lifts serve the lower slopes for the novice and intermediate skier. The area is also...
...inhabitants were long-headed people of good stature. They made sharp, beautiful weapons out of obsidian from a nearby volcano and cultivated barley, peas and primitive kinds of wheat. During the earlier centuries, they had no pottery but made graceful vessels of wood. The women carried makeup kits with polished obsidian mirrors, little baskets of rouge mixed with fat, and delicate bone sticks with thin tips still covered with green paint resembling the implements with which modern women apply mascara...
...open for business for the first time this year with a 4800 foot double chair and a T-bar. Andree Mead Lawrence, one of America's finest Olympic skiers, will direct the ski school. Mt. Ascutney in Windsor is a new area on the North slope of an extinct volcano with 120 acres of meticulously groomed trails up to 13/4 miles in length. Its double chair lift carries 900 skiers an hour on a 4700' ride up a 1470' vertical rise, while three T-bar lifts serve the lower slopes for the novice and intermediate skier. The area is also...
Last week his volcano blew skyhigh...