Word: wastelanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father was a moderately successful lawyer who had the idea that Iowa was going to become a wasteland, made plans to move out of the state and raise nuts somewhere; but he stayed. Meredith's mother Rosalie, a Sunday-school superintendent for 40 years, nicknamed him "Glory" because he always had a smile on his face. Rosalie acted in amateur plays-a daring hobby at the time-and grew lilies of the valley on the north side of the house. She kept Lorna Doone and Tennyson within easy reach of the Willson children, and dressed curly-haired Meredith...
Barely three years ago the Southwest's Four Corners area was a 15,000-sq.-mi. wasteland inhabited by Indians, mostly Navajo, whose sheep battled the jackrabbits for meager forage. Last week the mesa-dotted region, where the boundaries of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet, was the hottest petroleum area in the U.S. Each day El Paso Natural Gas Co. piped more than 600 million cu. ft. of natural gas to the Los Angeles market from 3,000 wells; other companies piped huge amounts to the Pacific Northwest, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Los Alamos. Oil company pipelines...
...parodies. (Satire used to seek its own form.) There is a parody on Jack Kerouac--one of the few prose works written in the past two years worse than Kerouac's own. And an allegory for modern children. And a lamentation on income taxes in the form of a Wasteland lampoon (shattering and scattering the newly mended dissociation with a series of rhyming couplets...
Dictator Juan Perón let Patagonian smuggling flourish from 1945 to 1953. In July 1956 President Pedro Aramburu revived the free zone with the old, futile hope that it could make an eroded wasteland blossom. Instead, refrigerators, watches, lingerie, television sets and bubble gum began moving across the border. Wooden handles stamped "made south of parallel 42" were slapped into imported shovels, wooden bases with the same markings were attached to Japanese sewing machines, and all the loot found its way north to market. Most lucrative item of all was the automobile, legally subject to duties of six times...
...good fun-it might be titled Sweeney Among the Mockingbirds. Parodist Purcell has great sport with Eliot's comparison shopping between languages and religions, his footnote-prone scholarship, his frequent obscurity ("Fiffles the refulgence of the Pliocene"). Typical of the parody is one passage from a psuedo-Wasteland...