Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were warmed-over versions of bills that earlier and less acquiescent sessions had seriously considered and soberly rejected. The 89th Congress did not ask whether a bill were necessary, desirable, constitutional, or even rational, but only whether President Johnson wanted it. Were we to follow the practice of ancient England and apply descriptive names to our legislative sessions, the 89th would go down as "the obsequious Congress...
...hope to die suddenly. And they do. In automobiles and airplanes, through war or crime, death comes ever more abruptly, ever more violently. And after middle age, it comes suddenly through heart attack or stroke. There is hardly time to put one's life in order, in the ancient phrase, and to prepare for the end. In many a modern dying, there is no moment of death at all. Without realizing the momentous thing that is happening to them, patients are eased into the long, final coma. No matter how humane and sensible, this does raise the question...
...booklets will be issued at the rate of one a month, and the project may not be finished for 20 years. In addition to a literal translation of the text, the English Talmud includes a new commentary that frequently substitutes the opinions of modern scholars for ancient ones, in order to emphasize points most relevant for Judaism today, as well as explanatory notes identifying the authors of Talmudic sayings and defining difficult terms. Thus the translation may end up ten times as long as the formidable original...
Boston University Astronomy Professor Gerald Hawkins has a bone to pick with historians who list the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is not that they have picked the wrong wonders, only that their list is too short. Britain's Stonehenge, says the British-born scientist, is the eighth wonder-a remarkable achievement of primitive man. In a new book, Stonehenge Decoded (Doubleday; $5.95), he explains how he turned to a modern computer to unravel the 3,500-year-old mystery of Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge's long-kept secret, says Hawkins, is that its vast stone slabs...
...nobility by immersing himself in a noble tradition. The Consul in Under the Volcano, for example, may be one of the many examples of a man "alienated" from society but the hero of Report to Greco is a descendant of generations of proud Cretans and a son of the ancient island of Crete. It is no accident that the author begins the prologue with Cretan soil in his hand and ends it by addressing his grand-father...