Word: ancient
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...mercy of transcontinental railroads and highways), of well-being (though summer temperatures rise to 120° in the shade), of boundless confidence that if the desert can be turned into a thriving oasis nothing in the world is impossible (though they are still pressed by the desert's ancient problem: water...
Cool Monument. It was mastery of the water problem that first made Arizona a place to live instead of a place to leave. In 1867 an Indian fighter named Jack Swilling began to investigate the ruins of some ancient canals (believed to have been built in the loth century by the Hohokam people). Swilling decided to set up an irrigation company, succeeded in starting a new town. One literate resident proposed that they call their town Phoenix because, he said, they would raise there a new civilization upon the ruins of the old. The new civilization...
...Barracks, where a confederate was supposed to fling open the gates and let them in. But the chief of the military forces arrived before the rebels, barred the gates and organized a stout defense. For the first time in his life, Rebel Betancourt fired a rifle. It was an ancient German weapon with a brutal kick. When he is asked whether he killed anyone, he dodges. "Just say I was there," he growls. Well shielded, the barracks defenders drove off the attackers, the revolt flopped, and Betancourt fled into exile...
Throughout, he must belong. Probably not since the sway of the ancient theocracies has a ruling class had such influence over the child mind. A well-flogged lordling of Dr. Keate's Eton, a Dickens character sniveling in Dotheboys Hall, or even that refugee from the U.S. prep school, Holden Caulfield, would shed a tear for the winners in the Russian school system. It is a system destined to convert the countenance of a child into the Gromyko mask of panslavery...
...Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky finds new material in a Long Island synagogue, when a mentally sick and abandoned girl is returned to life by ancient rites, as surrealism mixes with Freud, demonology with farce...