Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place, so smoothly does the earth seal its fissures. Even memory, which honors and cherishes the dead, recalls nothing of the rage except that it existed, that it was awful feeling like paper in a storm, even of one's own manufacture, yet the experience was also like some ancient dream, the survivors hoping feebly that from now on the gods will be kind. So has the world advanced to its current state of grace...
...Spacks' catalog of great gossips omits Marcel Proust, the greatest eavesdropper and scandalmonger of them all, as well as James Joyce, who, like so many of his fellow Dubliners, regarded rumor and innuendo as meat and drink. Still, her thesis holds. No one, from the whisperers about Socrates in ancient Athens to the viewers of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, could ever resist burbling about persons not present. If the rumors are written down, they are called gossip. If they are written up, they are called literature...
...women's soccer team, meanwhile, also didn't claim its Ivy crown--its sole league loss, a 1-0 decision to Brown, put the Crimson out of the race for the Ancient Eight laurels. The booters did advance to the NCAA playoffs, however...
...shoulders in Kenosha, Wis., where it makes Alliance and Encore cars. Assemblers among the factory's 5,800 workers earn an average of $13.44 an hour, vs. $13.07 in a comparable GM facility. Last week AMC's management, which wants concessions from the United Auto Workers to make the ancient lakefront factory more productive, vowed to close the plant by 1986 unless the union agrees to several changes, including wage reductions...
Akhnaten is the third of Glass's trilogy of operas about remarkable men. A musically luminous treatment of the rise and fall of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh some consider history's first monotheist, it unfolds in gradual waves to reveal two particularly striking moments: a ravishing trio for Akhnaten (a countertenor), his mother and his wife in the first act; and Akhnaten's glorious hymn to the sun disk in Act II. The prevailing mood, though, is dark and brooding, emphasized by Glass's use of an orchestra without violins. Rich in detail and sharp in characterization, Akhnaten...