Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite word is mathom, meaning something one saves but doesn't need, as in "I've just got to get rid of all these mathoms." Permanently hooked Ringworms frequently memorize long passages from the trilogy and learn how to write Tengwar or Certar, two peculiar and ancient-looking scripts that Tolkien invented on behalf of his mythical creatures. The most ardent readers of all are likely to join the nation's fast-growing Tolkien Society of America, which publishes magazines containing learned disquisitions on the elaborate genealogies and intricate rules of grammar that the author attached...
...announced the assistant director in discreet, nicely modulated tones. Griped a nearby veteran American technician: "If we were in Hollywood, he'd be saying 'Shaddup!' " But it was not a Hollywood sound stage they were on last week. It was a picturesque, narrow street in the ancient Wiltshire village of Castle Combe, which was also cluttered with sound trucks, mobile generators, scriptmen, Actor Anthony Newley, giant arc lamps that almost topped the moss-grown roofs of the cottages, and a herd of wondering, chattering villagers pressed against the chicken-wire fence, hastily constructed to keep them...
...ethic of that ancient oath "by Apollo the Physician" is one that all doctors have sworn to and still swear by. Do they live up to it? Not always, is the grim conclusion of Harvard's Dr. Henry K. Beecher after a ten-year study of medical experiments recently performed on human subjects. Dr. Beecher has no quarrel with the physician who tries a new drug or a new operation for the benefit of a patient; he is concerned about experiments that are designed for the ultimate good of society in general but may well do harm...
...never have been published by Caxton's London press at the Sign of the Red Pale. In fact, the printer had to work hard to keep it from being proscribed as the product of a pagan. Ovid was a Roman, but Caxton illustrated the book with the ancient poet praying, described as "atte begynnynge of his booke maketh invocation for help and dyvyn ayde...
...play ping-pongs between these two households, it was logical to devise a basic unit-set in which the entrances of the two residences face each other diagonally at the sides of the stage with an open vista between -- much in the manner of the conventional settings of ancient comedy...