Rubber Boom/the First Rubber Boom 1879-1912

Famous quotes containing the words rubber and/or boom:

    “Time for the flat-headed man. I recognize that listener,
    Him with the platitudes and rubber doughnuts,
    Melting at the knees, a varicose horror.
    Hello, hello. My nerves knew you, dear boy.
    Have you come to unhinge my shadow?”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)