Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initiative, Reagan proposed a temporary U.S. military presence in Lebanon, along with contingents from other Western countries, until Lebanon's government managed to establish its authority throughout the ravaged land. That goal is proving more difficult to attain than the Administration had foreseen, as religious factions renew their ancient feuds with growing ferocity...
...always happened, everywhere. Often it is accepted as a natural if regrettable part of woman's status as her husband's property. Throughout history unlucky women have been subjected to the whims and brutality of their husbands. The colloquial phrase "rule of thumb" is supposedly derived from the ancient right of a husband to discipline his wife with a rod "no thicker than his thumb." In the U.S. the statistics reflect no unprecedented epidemic of domestic violence, but only a quite recent effort to collect figures?often inexact, but startling even when allowances are made for error?on what...
...rescue. Performance practice, the study of how compositions were meant to be played on instruments of their period, has become a lively, avant-garde movement that promises re-examination of baroque, classical era and early romantic music. "The philosophy," declares Christopher Hogwood, director of England's Academy of Ancient Music, "is precisely the same as the one that leads museums to clean 18th century paintings and put them in the right frames. We like to see our pictures of music clean-without layers of 19th century varnish...
...Glenn. They have for months been describing their heartache for the Oval Office. Reagan has not made any public commitment to run again and apparently has not told a single friend he will definitely seek a second term. Presumably he has confided in Nancy, but some friends wonder. An ancient Persian put it well: "Speech sows, silence reaps...
Like most of his buddies, Mason had believed that all Asians were unworthy of U.S. salvation. But in a smoldering village, he began to understand the hubris of Western technology. Of an ancient water wheel, he writes: it was "as efficient as any device our engineers could produce. The knowledge that built it was being systematically destroyed...