Word: incognita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the Kremlin is energetic about publishing statistics on many aspects of Soviet life, one vital area remains terra incognita. The Communist leadership regards sex as virtually nonexistent, except to raise the birth rate; whatever figures exist are guarded as closely as the real statistics on defense spending. Stern, who left the U.S.S.R. in 1977, has now lifted that curtain slightly. In a book published in France, La vie sexuelle en U.R.S.S. (Sex in the Soviet Union), which is to be brought out in the U.S. next spring by Times Books, he offers the most comprehensive description yet of sexual...
After Allen and Hooft scored ten of the Crimson's first 12 points, leading scorer Glenn Fine arched home a jumper from terra incognita to make it 14-2 with 14:40 left in the half...
...paper where specialists write for specialists, the Times now goes after the general reader. Foreign coverage focuses, and well, on how other people live, their problems and moods, rather than on changes of ministers. Once the rest of the U.S., outside of Washington and New York City, was terra incognita to the Times, but it now provides excellent regional coverage. In its own backyard, the Times has discovered neighborhoods and suburbs it formerly ignored. Stories are built around people; interpretation is freer...
...experience triggers a melancholy reverie about a future when the American machine has rusted to a halt. The nation resembles some medieval terra incognita. Bandit barons rule its regions. Manhattan is an ancient ruin reclaimed by vegetation. The Chinese have become the world's most advanced civilization. They have even learned to shrink themselves to the size of egg rolls to conserve natural resources...
...rather hurried epilogue, but he leaves the reader hungry for news of the interior, for reports on the nation that survived its predators. "The obscurest epoch is today," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strong Brown God proves it. Old Africa stands revealed; current Nigeria apparently remains terra incognita...