Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Euphorically, some people are even beginning to wonder what society might be like without the poor. Would they be missed? After all, the poor provide often beneficial political ferment and a useful troubling of the sluggish conscience. The ancient prophets, and a great many modern ones, were kept in business largely by the poor. In his new book, The Accidental Century, Michael Harrington speculates that "there could be a new, unimpoverished political equivalent of the poor," composed of middle-class people threatened in their jobs by automation and cybernation...
...reported the White Elephant Ball in Newport, at which some "dear girls in black leotards and black stocking caps" showed up in an "ancient bathtub, carried on the sturdy shoulders of Alan Pryce-Jones, who criticizes books, and Bobby Huertematte, who works in a Washington bank. Simple pleasures are the best, after all, aren't they?" She noted that "John McHugh and Trumbull Barton, whose Staten Island party for Margot and Rudy last spring made history, have gone off to Venice to visit an 87-year-old girl chum. They swear she's still fascinating. Maybe...
...session last week, more than 1,500 Roman Catholic prelates assembled for a march of penance from the Church of the Holy Cross to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, half a mile away. As the chill autumnal dusk darkened the Roman sky, a priest began to chant the ancient litany; from the throats of thousands of cardinals, bishops, priests and laymen came back the droning, prayerful response: "Pardon us, O Lord." At the rear of the procession, beneath a scarlet and gold baldacchino, walked Pope Paul VI dressed in red cope and carrying a crucifix in which were inlaid...
...stormy argument is expected this fall over another Pauline change that was made in the interests of compromise. One of the most significant of all council documents is the declaration on non-Christian religions, which exonerates the Jews of the ancient charge of deicide for their role in the death of Christ. At Paul's suggestion, the deicide clause has now been replaced by a more ambiguous phrasing?apparently to placate Italian conservatives, who insist that it runs counter to the sense of Scripture, and to satisfy anxious Middle Eastern Catholics, who mysteriously see in exoneration the first step toward...
Borgmann provides an amusing section on rhopalic sentences in which each word has one letter more than the last ("I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting"), and some helpful hints for the Scrabble set (aaa is a hookworm disease of ancient Egypt, and the zzxjoanw is a musical instrument). Unfortunately, he omits acrostics, telestichs, lipogrammata, univocalic verses, Richelieu's equivoque or Swift's "Lacerated Latin" verses, in which Latin words make English statements ("Omi de armis tres,/ Imi na dis tres./ Cantu disco ver/ Meas alo ver?"). But he does include a section...