Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bird Watcher Mamarchev is correct. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, called a snegir, has always been a Russian favorite. In ancient days snegiri, and other birds, were released from their cages as a sign of spring. Orthodox Russians, continuing the tradition, believe that each bird freed on Annunciation Day (April 7) atones for one sin. Tradition dies hard, and even now in the Soviet Union, birds are set free on that...
...following night, the Shah entertained the Kennedys at a brilliant banquet that would have pleased Scheherazade. The setting was the brand-new Iranian chan cellery, a tasteful combination of modern architecture and ancient Persian mosaics, rugs and objets d'art. As they dined on caviar - freshly flown from the Caspian Sea - and pheasant à la périgourdme, the Kennedys and their hosts looked out on a rain-washed courtyard where Persian fountains played. And once more, the ladies were the radiant center of attraction - Jackie, in a strapless pink satin Dior gown, looked more like a Persian princess...
...Leavis subjected him to a savage literary mugging, and soon after, Snow suffered a detached retina that may cost the sight of his left eye. But last week Sir Charles ignored all trials for a new triumph: his installation as 30th Lord Rector of Scotland's ancient (1411) St. Andrews University. Snow postponed an eye operation for the ceremony. "I can't let the lads down," he said. "The eye was never much good anyway...
...Passing Show. Erpf carries his love of diverse viewpoints into his notable art collection, which so crowds his ten-room Park Avenue bachelor apartment that he has been forced to hang seven of his paintings in the bathroom. His tastes range all the way from ancient Chinese snuff bottles to the disturbing, threatening Tasso's Oak by Modern Peter Blume (price: $5,000). Art connoisseurs, asked to characterize his collection, shake their heads in despair...
Best bit: Hutton, as chief of the island's intelligence section, arrests an ancient is lander suspected of consorting with the enemy, waggles a thin Rathboney finger, and grimly begins to interrogate the dear old gentleman. The islander seems willing to talk but he can't talk English. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Eng lish and Japanese. The old man can't speak Japanese. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Japanese and Carolinian. The old man can't speak Carolinian. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Carolinian and a dialect called Charono...