Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some people, Zoroasterianism might sound like a strange, new political philosophy, but at least one Harvard professor is educating students about what is actually an ancient Iranian religion to further Americans' understanding of the Near East and its history...
...become director of the Asia Institute at the University of Shiraz in Iran from 1967 to 1975. And it was while he was working at the Institute, coordinating programs for Middle Eastern students, that he collected much of the information with which he currently performs his own research on ancient Persian culture, including scrolls and reproductions of inscriptions which are more than 1500 years...
What elsewhere one sees only in travel brochures, one finds in Thailand daily. It often seems, in fact, as if ancient gods -- Bacchus, Neptune, Zeus and Venus -- conspired to make the land a composite of holidaymakers' fantasies. Here is a never-never land built on solid ground; a fairy-tale monarchy ruled by a Renaissance King and his classically beautiful Queen; an orchid-scented garden of scintillant temples, lush jungles, palmy white beaches and a capital built along tree-shaded canals; and a gentle Buddhist retreat filled with smiling, gracious people who make "tourist industry" sound like a contradiction...
...novel's language mimics the magical realism and elaborate metaphors of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Pablo Neruda and effectively conjures up images of a land and people still bound by magic and ancient gods. Her metaphors are imaginative and often poetic. And the characters are at times fantastical, ranging from professional embalmers who travel around in wheel-chairs to silent Indians who disappear into the jungle at the blink...
Sutton talks with an ancient, charming political lexicon, recalling the days when people voted for someone "because he was good to me." He is part of a generation that gravitated towards politics because of the Depression. "FDR forced politics upon us," he says. "He gave us jobs working for the government. The city was a good paymaster. You were guaranteed at least a pair of shoes, a suit, a shirt and tie and maybe three meals a day for your family...