Word: wastelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senegal and the Niger, have fallen to their lowest levels since the start of the century. Lake Chad has evaporated to one-third its normal size and has actually separated into four parts. The fishing village of Bol, once a lakeside settlement, today looks out on a vast wasteland of parched scrubgrass stretching 18 miles to the water. The lake's fish catch has been halved, creating a protein deficiency that aggravates an already short supply of grains. In northern Chad, nomads are eating boiled tree bark and roots...
...most spectacular moments in world travel. From the border with Peru the bus jaunts along a stumbly dirt road for three hours through the barren spaces of the altiplano, the 14,000-foot-high plateau that covers the western third of Bolivia. Above the tree line, this gaping wasteland is broken only by the occasional adobe huts and the surrounding protective adobe walls of the Aymara Indians, who have scratched out a living here for countless centuries. Soon the huts become more numerous, and further on there is a hint of the nearing metropolis in the frantic crowds of women...
...visual effects are often striking: a consumer trapped between the buns of a "Nixonburger," two modest chairs labeled "Legislative" and "Judicial" dwarfed by an "Executive" throne. And he does not mind demanding considerable reading time. Under a cartoon showing Uncle Sam and a small boy strolling through a smudged wasteland, Wright placed the caption: "Well, our spacious skies got dirty when we cut back on clean air standards and we sold the amber waves of grain to other countries. The purple mountain majesties were gutted for strip mining and the fruited plain was leased to Exxon, not to mention...
...national psyche have asked, and partly answered, the questions implicit in their titles. Will America's 300-year-old marathon, The Pursuit of Loneliness, never stop? inquired Philip Slater. Theodore Roszak wondered whether the counterculture of the '60s could lead to a Promised Land, Where the Wasteland Ends. Half autopsy-reporters of the American Dream, half scenario-writers of America 2001, watchers for the new greening (or the last withering) form a kind of avant-garde of prophets-in-waiting...
Into this wasteland steps New Times, which has the talent but has thus far lacked the sense of direction to succeed. Marshall Frady, for example, is a skillful and sympathetic veteran Southern journalist: His book Wallace is a wonderfully revealing portrait of George Wallace and the Alabama that produced him. New Times sent Frady to North Carolina to hang around with Sam Ervin, and Frady wrote a brief, pointless description of the senator, and of a recording company producing a record of Sam reading old folk tales and the lyrics to popular songs...