Word: wasteland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal purpose is to bring fertility back to desolate Khuzistan province, an area the size of Michigan in southwest Iran, near the Persian Gulf.Twenty-five centuries ago. Khuzistan was the fabled fertile granary of the ancient Persian empire. But the region has since eroded into a virtual wasteland; the last major reclamation attempt was a system of irrigation canals dug by King Shapur II in 300 A.D. The new dam will water 360.000 acres, and provide electricity even for the province's remotest villages and five cities, including the oil-refining center of Abadan. opening the way for industrialization...
...where one can deposit a quarter and water runs out of an old innertube. At the same distance away are a telephone line and power line running down the highway." Scratches bulldozed in the desert are given glamorous names such as Riverside Drive. And in the center of this wasteland of sage and sand stands a giant billboard saying: THIS...
...Rockefeller III on the stage, Leonard Bernstein on the podium, Jacqueline Kennedy in the audience, and a nationwide TV audience looking on. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts made its debut with the opening of the $15.4 million Philharmonic Hall. It is still surrounded by a pocked and chugging wasteland of bulldozers and derricks, power shovels and cement mixers, which will eventually be a 14-acre landscaped park containing a repertory theater, a theater for dance and operetta, a library-museum, a building to house the Juilliard School of music, and (by 1965) the new $35 million Metropolitan Opera House...
...bugaboo to the liberals, a savior to the conservatives, and a man of parts to the compilers of biographies. But no one ever thought of him as a TV critic -until last week. Aware that Newton Minow got a lot of acreage simply by calling TV a "vast wasteland," Goldwater rared back his onager at a Greek-American dinner in Chicago and let the rocks fly at U.S. television. "Have you looked at your TV set lately?" he asked the audience. "What wallowing in self-pity! What vast and contorted expressions of emotion over trifling problems! What meaningless violence...
Tuesday nights more than ordinarily bearable in the Wasteland. Last week's special was Burnett at her manic best. Instead of ending up as a homemade foil for the urbane Andrews charms, she came near to clomping away with the whole show...