Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CARL SANDBURG READS FROM HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY "ALWAYS THE YOUNG STRANGERS" (Caedmon). In heartfelt tones, the ancient recorder of Americana shares his remembrances of a Midwestern childhood, school days, the neighborhood circus coming to the empty lot down the street, the daily pumping for water in the backyard, the parade marking the death of Ulysses S. Grant...
Perhaps the most ancient function of religion is assuring man that he will live past death-and live in physical fact as well as in spirit. It was such a vision of immortality that led the Egyptians to mummify bodies and stock tombs with worldly belongings. Christians pray for the "resurrection of the body" and have traditionally held that at the Last Judgment the tombs will open and the dead will rise again to life. This age-old belief, combined with new technology, makes it seem prudent to a growing number of Americans that they should arrange to have their...
Thursday, September 22 JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread and-Pow!" The Jericho team infiltrates German submarine pens, built in the shadow of an ancient French cathedral...
...anarchy of life opposed by the clean disciplines of totalitarian power: it is an ancient human contest, and Warner has the insight to see that these antipathetic power forces are also sympathetic. "It seemed to us," Roy says of the aerodrome and the village, "that between these two enemies there was something binding and eternally...
Although accustomed to being a hidden remnant of the true faith, Parsis today are seriously worried that their ancient religion may die out. Traditionally opposed to proselytizing, the Parsis still excommunicate a woman who marries outside the sect, refuse to accept her children into the faith. Not only is intermarriage more common today, but younger Parsis are growing indifferent to the elaborate rituals and obscure doctrines of the faith. Relatively few Parsis can even read the three extant volumes containing Zoroaster's teachings, which are written in an ancient Persian dialect. Although proud of their history, many Parsis increasingly...