Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senators never wholly forget their ancient charge and tradition-there are still snuffboxes at the Senate lobby entrance, sand for blotting letters on every desk, quill pens available on demand. The Senate roster also still retains a collection of first names not to be found in any other body and surpassing even the cast of characters in a 19th century novel-Ross, Birch, Caleb, Gordon, Norris, Hiram, Bourke, Lister, Spessard, Roman, Gale, Thruston, Claiborne, Winston, Leverett, Strom, Harrison. This assemblage is still magisterial in form if not in substance, still flinging its sounding periods into the stillness of the Congressional...
...imagine we would all agree on a first point--China's remarkable feeling of superiority. Here was a very big, ancient, isolated, unified and self sufficient empire, stretching from the latitude of Hudson's Bay to Cuba or from the Baltic Sea to the Sahara Desert, with a great deal of domestic commerce to meet its needs, cut off from West Asia by the high mountains and deserts of Central Asia and thus isolated throughout most of its history, preserving a continuity of development in the same area over some three or four thousand years, during most of which time...
...about as camp as scotch and water. Athletes have been dressing up like whores as long as there've been college dining halls. There's nothing decadent in that. Dirty jokes are nothing new. People have been laughing at them for ages. Right Up Your Alley is in an ancient and venerable tradition. The only thing wrong with it is it's not funny...
Trouble is, teeny weenies find it difficult to "identify" with the top rock-'n'-roll singers, most of whom are positively ancient adolescents. As a result, the promoters are busy developing a new stable of pre-teen rockers. Recently, Smash Records signed a four-year contract with three Ohio brothers, the Hornets-Guitarists Greg Calvert, 12, and Gary, 11, and Drummer Steve, 6. Their first record release will be Patty Girl...
...analyzing faint quasar light that traveled billions of years before reaching telescope mirror and camera, Schmidt has uncovered clues to the ancient secrets of the universe. The remote and starlike objects he studies were born, and may have died, long before the earth existed. By decoding some of their signals that have been so long in transit, the Dutch-born astronomer has upset the familar pre-quasar universe of stars and galaxies. He has rocked the worlds of astronomy, physics and philosophy. He has undermined established theories and stimulated fantastic new ones, provoked scientists into bitter controversies and brilliant hypotheses...