Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learned from sharing in the experience of their generation. The ambiguous nature of the war in Viet Nam-and the war's peril to life and limb-requires a higher duty quotient than usual of those who are called to serve. Still, ever since the city-states of ancient Greece first summoned their youth to arms, young men have responded to-and frequently found satisfaction in-what General Hershey calls "the privilege and obligation of free men" to serve as soldiers. A nation that offers its youth as many opportunities as the U.S. does can hardly expect less...
Palm reading as a form of fortune-telling is as phony as it is ancient. As an aid to medical diagnosis, it is as promising as it is new. The latest addition to the arcane art comes from the strange palm-print patterns found on babies born to mothers who had German measles early in their pregnancy during the epidemic that swept the U.S. in 1964-65. Since these are babies likely to be suffering from hidden but serious abnormalities, reports Brooklyn's Dr. Ruth Achs, the visible but minor abnormalities of their palms may well be a valuable...
...such a one, or could be mistaken for one by malice and fanaticism. And so, Torquemada puts his friend to the torture. Alvero's own wife repudiates him as a Jew, and while he is recovering from torture, his daughter is immolated in a fire that burns the ancient synagogue of Segovia. Thomas gives Alvero his freedom in exchange for the girl's sacrifice...
...country. Since this region was also an oriental despotism and a one-party state, it was clear that a single band of scheming dynasts, the Northern People's Congress, could command at will a working majority in the Federal Parliament and dictate the terms of government to less ancient cliques in other regions...
...chock-full of Innocence. A kind of satanic hotelier takes him in tow and dispatches him, like one of nature's naivest bellboys, to the fetid rooms of earthly existence. Along the way, there is a series of symbolic betrayals: by friendship (in the person of an ancient coot in a Confederate uniform); by wealth (in the form of an alcoholic hag and her fluttery entourage of butterfly boys); by art (as represented by a seedy writer-painter couple); and by sex in the nymphomaniacal guise of a torrid pop-swinger (Jennifer West). They kill Malcolm with corruption...