Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Zoni Williamson, Joe's ancient Negro farmhand, milked some cows, Joe walked out to the farrowing barn that he built while he was still in high school. In one of the six concrete-floored stalls lay a monstrous (upwards of 600 lbs.) Duroc sow with eleven week-old pigs. She gave a grunting roar as Joe eased a trough past her jaws to the floor and filled it with slop from a bucket. Joe worked carefully, talking softly: a sow with new pigs is one of the farm's most dangerous animals, both to humans...
...Members of the Church of Christ are also known as Campbellites, after Thomas Campbell and his son Alexander. In 1809, in Washington, Pa., they rejected Calvinism, formed an association for "the Restoration of the Ancient Order of Things." The Campbellites believe that laymen have the right and duty to preach. Their motto: "Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent." About 80% of Church of Christ membership (1,500,000) is in rural areas...
...falls off the bones, and throw the flesh away and treasure the bones?" Primitive peoples discovered that, by devouring a dead body, they did not acquire its spirit; with that insight, as myths tell it, the original oneness of spirit and body, heaven and hell, was torn asunder. The ancient Egyptians spent half their lives preparing for the afterlife (some lucky corpses were sent to eternity in a glass shaft carved to represent the phallus of Osiris); at times it seemed as if only the grave robbers, who returned a large percentage of buried wealth to circulation, saved the nation...
...18th century there had emerged in England a demi-reputable tradition of the "dismal trader," although for a long time the undertaker used to inspire communal shudders (in ancient Rome he was barred from politics). Now he had become "a strong, presentable man with a good suit of black clothes of his own"-and the scene was set for The Great American Funeral...
...shouldn't the professor of medieval philosophy or the professor of ancient history take a course in modern physics," he declared...