Word: 8th
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...their visual splendor and their vicious slums; wealth and poverty exist cool cheek by grizzled jowl. Madras, with its burgeoning Hindu evangelism (backed by Shastri's strongman, Congress Party President Kumaraswami Kamaraj), is less metropolitan but more leisurely. Where Bombay is sparked by its Parsi businessmen (descended from 8th century Persian fire worshipers), Madras is tempered by Tamil intellectualism. New Delhi-founded in 1911 by the British -is the youngest of the nation's great cities, and its least distinctive. Dust swirls through its broad, beige streets; beggars sleep on its sidewalks beneath gaudy murals; and pallid politicians...
...Elea flourished as a trading center, a home of philosophers, and a watering place for wealthy Romans (Brutus took refuge there after he did in Julius Caesar). Though it had acknowledged the rule of Rome, the city remained Greek to the core until it vanished some time around the 8th century...
...This move is a revolution because all the other elements that were the foundation of 8th and 19th Century music have been so completely reevaluated, in terms of rhythm, structure, lyrics, and dynamics, that this can be considered a new form of music...
After Allen came Yale's captain Bill Mathers, followed by Crain and the Tiger's Ritch Geisel and Larry Taylor. Rounding out the Crimson's scoring were Chiappa (7th) and Jon Chaffee (8th), with other Harvard runners taking four of the following five places...
SUDAN. Some shoebill storks imported from the Sudan make like clowns, but the main attention getter is a fragile Madonna and Child painted on the mud walls of a church around the 8th century and discovered last year by U.N. archaeologists scurrying to preserve antiquities from the Aswan Dam backwaters...