Word: wastelanders
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...just this "total picture" of Cambridge that both sides are so worried about. Advocates of the Neighborhood Plan see Kendall Square turning into an ugly and dangerous "industrial wasteland" that should be cleaned up with wealth producing development...
...harshness of the sub-Artic climate, the long winters and loneliness of vast expanses of wasteland have traditionally inspired in inhabitants a fear of the supernatural. Yet old superstitions seem to have died out on the whole and have been replaced by Roman Catholicism. Twice a year, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest from La Romaine spends a week in the tiny church which the St. Augustine Indians built for themselves under his supervision. To make up for lost time, he performs continuous masses, weddings and baptisms--all in Algonquian, the language spoken by the tribes of the sub-Arctic cultural...
...arms, trains and economically supports the Chilean junta. The link between U.S. aid and the plight of the Chilean people is direct. Continued U.S. support of the Chilean regime can only signify U.S. acceptance of the human wasteland it has created...
...Grand Canyon. By far the most pleasant scenery to man's eye-assuming anyone could survive in a world without water-would be the delicately terraced hills and snug valleys on the gently sloping continental shelves. The rest of the ocean floor would be mostly a vast wasteland of muddy ooze, as bleak in its way as the Sahara...
...there is a misplaced sense of horror--as if the tragedy resides in the fact of Willy's death (a fact we know to be impending from the very start), rather than in the nature of his life, in the horror of a man as he watches the utter wasteland of his life come crashing through his last remaining Maginot line of self-delusion. The crucial point here is that Willy is not just a broken-down salesman--he never was a salesman. For he finds the proposition which his brother Charley puts to him, that "the only thing...