Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murderers sigh for the young lovers on the stand sigh for the comedians sigh for the poets sigh for the broken autos sigh for the sticks and clubs sigh for the rich sigh for the poor sigh for the desert and the ocean murmuring and empty sigh for an ancient sigh for the unwed mothers sigh for the artificial energy sigh for happiness for sadness sigh for sentimentality sigh for stoicism sigh to the stars of the invigorating horoscope sigh for the diffuse and for the single minded sigh for your gray hair sigh for your shampoo and your teenager...
Taste for Salt. By far the most ancient and frequently used of all food additives, of course, is sodium chloride (NaCl), or "common salt," which is essential to animal life. Grazing animals and fish extract it from the plants they eat. So peoples who live largely by hunting and fishing get all their bodies' salt requirements with no special effort...
...prize, but for a chance to be seen by a movie talent scout who might elevate her to bearable unreality. When the marathon begins to drag, Rocky dresses the participants in track suits and has them race around the floor-an event that literally causes the ancient mariner's heart to break...
...limited by her slightly blinkered view of Alexander. Granting him his historic virtues-precocity, courage, leadership and tactical genius-she dissembles on the crucial matter of his sexuality. After Achilles and Patroclus, Alexander and Hephaistion (one of his generals) were the best-known best friends of the ancient world. In the novel, however, though the author surrounds her hero with Hephaistion, an overt invert, and a band of other young men, Alexander himself remains pure, sublimated and inevitably prissy. He not only has no faults; he has no appetites, an odd condition for a young hero who, according to popular...
...will spew out an "astro-psy-chological portrait" and "an astralcalendar for the coming six months," at the rate of 1100 lines a minute. Trilingual as well as speedy. Astroflash I'l (its parent and predecessor remains in Paris) embodies, as the sign outside says, "a marriage of the ancient art of astrology and modern computer technology...