Word: maps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bloomington. The traveler is wrong. Bloomington, Ill., is the county seat of McLean County. If you are talking corn and soybeans, McLean County is the capital of the world. If you are talking heartland, you are standing on it: topsoil two, three, five feet deep, divided on the plot map into square-mile sections still owned by descendants of German and Scotch-Irish immigrants who cleared and settled their way across Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Indiana, out onto the prairie. If you are talking history in McLean County, you are talking about a place that has achieved its destiny...
Cannibals and Missionaries, By Mary McCarthy. (Harcourt, Brace, $10.95): If Iran is still on the map by the time Christmas rolls around, the basis for this novel's plot is depressingly relevant. A committee of liberals sets off for Iran to uncover the sins of the Shah's regime. On the way they get hijacked and what follows is what critics recognize as McCarthy's most politically aware creation...
Still, signs of inner strain were there: the chain-smoking, the use of drugs to get going in the morning and to stop at night, the increasingly heavy drinking. His remarkable face became a relief map of a ravaged land; Auden said he looked "like a wedding cake left out in the rain." Osborne does not flinch from presenting such evidence, but neither does he seem to know what to do with it: "On the Atlantic crossing back to England, he was uncharacteristically miserable, and on one occasion burst into tears, confessing to Isherwood that he could never find anyone...
...black star for "critically deficient," which the IFALPA has given to 19 airports (the only one in the U.S. is Los Angeles International). Among the reasons for the Mexico City airport's low rating are deficiencies in electronic navigational aids and landing equipment. Moreover, a standard map of the airport distributed to pilots carries this warning: "CAUTION: Street lights approximately one mile north of ... Runway 23-L may be mistaken for runway lights in conditions of low visibility." Gilbert was reading a copy of the map on the way down. And, at the time of the crash, both runways...
Moreover, these homelands are scattered dots on the map, totally unviable as political or economic units. Indeed if they had any value at all the white man would not surrender these lands. If they were viable economic units the black man would work there rather than supply South Africa with cheap migrant labor. This country has a migrant labor force only because the government chooses to define them as such...