Dance Hall of the Dead (1973)

the act of skipping, avoiding, leaving, or refusing to participate in an event or activity. One plays hooky by not attending school, for example.

The hippie movement emerged from the tumultuous 1960s in North America and Western Europe. Hippies were often teenagers, college students, or young adults that were either of the baby boomer generation or that generations' subsequent offspring. Hippies possessed a core set of beliefs that revolved around the values of peace, love, and respect for nature as being essential in an increasingly globalized, technological, and violent society. Hippies were often associated with non-violent demonstrations and were especially visible in the U.S. during the Vietnam War era, when they organized countless anti-war marches throughout the country. Hippies sometimes formed communes, choosing to live in rural settings, away from urban environments. Hippies were also considered non-conformists, critical of and often rejecting the constrictive dogmas of the status quo, including mainstream disapproval of recreational drug usage. There is a stigma of drug abuse attached to the movement that is prevalent to this day, specifically the use and abuse of marijuana and hallucinogens.

A hand tool with a sharpened and usually angled edge used to scrape flesh and fat from animal hides. It can also be used to scrape the cleaned and untreated hide until it has a uniform surface. Once the hide has been scraped, it can be cured or tanned, which are methods that preserve the hide so that it can be used for clothing, bedding, and other items that need to be made from durable, flexible, water resistant material.

A thin layer of particulate matter in the ambient atmosphere that makes objects in the distance appear blurry and further away than usual, or that refracts light into a diffuse opacity which also affects vision. Sometimes haze is accompanied by the scent of burning wood, water droplets, or a magnified sense of heat.

The essential but non-physical aspect of a living being, that which leaves the body after death. Depending on the context, "soul" can refer to the spirit, personality, consciousness, mind, or entirety of the being ("another poor soul," as Leaphorn refers to Horseman in Tony Hillerman's 1970 Navajo detective novel THE BLESSINGWAY).

Frost forms when objects at the earth's surface are colder than the air around them. Not only are the objects cold, they are cold enough to freeze the water vapor in the air that condenses, and then freezes, onto these surfaces. Sometimes this looks like a dusting of snow.

A hard frost refers to a frost that occurs when the surface temperature of the earth remains below freezing for several hours. In this case, the water vapor in the atmosphere freezes into larger crystals than the dusting, rime, or layer of frost that forms at slightly warmer temperatures.

A six-stringed, wood-bodied instrument with a fretted neck. The basic guitar, which emerged from the confluence of Islamic and Greco-Roman musical traditions in the Iberian penninsula, developed into different types derived from a variety of cultural traditions, such as flamenco, mariachi, and eventually styles like American folk and rock-and-roll, each of which augmented the traditional guitar design to accommodate new playing pracitices, aesthetics, and desired sounds.

An organizational schema comprised of a network of interconnecting lines that create integrated series of squares.

A small compartment in the dashboard of a vehicle, usually on the passenger's side, with a hinged door that swings open toward the floor. Althought the glovebox was initially intended to hold the gloves worn by early drivers whose vehicle compartments were open to the air, gloveboxes have evolved to contain an array of miscellaneous items that may include spare change, flashlights, batteries, street maps, gum, or the occassional handgun.

Glaciers are huge bodies of ice that form because they accumulate more mass (from precipitation) than they lose (from melting and evaporation) over time. Glaciers can grow and shrink annually, just as they seem to expand and then retreat over the earth's surface. Because glaciers are so massive, their sheer weight causes them to move downhill, often changing the topography of the earth's surface in the process.