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...dings, and are, I grieve to write it, generally de serted. The third, the Olympic, is a tiny show box for vaudevilles and burlesques. It is singularl... ...sight of the first range of hills, which are the outposts of the Alleghany Mountains, the scenery, which had been uninteresting hitherto, became more ... ...ich and beautiful; the weather very fine; and for many miles the Kaatskill mountains, where Rip Van Winkle and the ghostly Dutchmen played at ninepins...
...es of Doctor Blimber and Mr Feeder, were resumed. 168 Dombey & Son As the Olympic game of lounging up and down had been cut shorter than usual that d... ...shed and returned incessantly like its life’ s blood. Crowds of people and mountains of goods, departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in e... ...s—though I will think of them, when night comes on a hurricane and seas is mountains rowling, for which overhaul your Doctor Watts, brother, and when ... ... home, as should dazzle the senses of that lady, and heap mortifica- tion, mountains high, on the head of Mrs Skewton. ‘But I am made,’ said Mrs Chick... ...le as secluding himself from Mrs MacStinger among 873 Charles Dickens the mountains of Switzerland. Similarly , when I am reminded by any chance of w...
...y night, no matter how cold or hot it is, and eat cooked food; when there are mountains of fresh vegetables and fruits and nuts available that do no... ...to our origins? Now it is buried under 53 million years of soil erosion and mountains of sand. It was the one place in Africa during the Age of V... ...s the destruction of Life. The earth, the ground, the valleys and plains and mountains cannot be separated from the eco-systems they are in and sepa... ...tood out in the middle of a clearing, or a peak that stood out from the other mountains, or an animal that was taller, or faster than other animals, ... ...ped than any form of cooperation. Until you get pyramidal events such as the Olympics: which is mostly about humans competing mechanically physical... ...mans competing mechanically physically between each other. Originally, the Olympic games were an international-political-cultural-religious-sporti... ... only mechanically: worshipping it above other human abilities. What are The Olympics: but a Worship of Physical measurement. Someone being .0014 s... ...meone being .0014 seconds faster than someone else. Or Gail Deevers becoming Olympic Champion, because the other runners were flat-chested, and she ... ...y to human existence. Billions of humans worship measurement not only in the Olympics: but in thousands of other ways also. Spectatorship becam...
... beauty and of woe, Passion and mystery and the dread unknown; Pure as the mountains of perpetual snow, Cold as the icy winds that round them moan, Da... ...por- tion of the hemisphere in sight was covered with innumerable volcanic mountains, conical in shape, and having more the ap- pearance of artificial... ... with the poetic wreath, in anticipation of his victory at the approaching Olympics. “But, good Jupiter! what is the matter in the crowd behind us?” B... ...uch as the giant cities of eastern fable. We were rapidly approaching the mountains in the South; but our elevation was more than 201 V olume One su...
...cks, and a’ course the beast is a kinder riled. He wants to be back to the mountains. He wouldn’t have his belly filled, but he’d have his own way. It... ...sults? We determined to go to Portland, in Maine, from thence to the White Mountains in New Hampshire—the American Alps, as they love to call them—and... ...r they ever heard, or at any rate whether they know anything, of the White Mountains? As regards myself, I confess that the name had reached my ears; ... ...n indefinite idea that they formed an intermediate stage between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies; and that they were inhabited either by Mor- ... ... hotels closed. October, no doubt, is the most beautiful month among these mountains; but, according to the present arrangement of matters here, the h... ...ness of Hollowell Street is dear to me, and I love to thread my way up the Olympic into Covent Garden. Fifth Avenue in New York is as grand as paint a...
...e grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan. ” But the T aliban, like the Sudanese, would eventua... ...ar 1997.The additional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase), enhanced security at... ...ncerned about the danger posed by aircraft since at least the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.There he had tried to create an air defense plan using assets from... ...bout the danger posed by aircraft in the context of protecting the Atlanta Olympics of 1996, the White House complex, and the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa... ...d’s idea, see chapter 5, note 33. 16. For Clarke’s involvement in the 1996 Olympics, see Richard Clarke interview (Dec. 18, 2003). For the 1998 exerci...