Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident colored the rest of her life. Archibald Christie, a chilly, willful man, remarried anyway. Agatha spent the next years mostly out of England, traveling in remote parts of the Middle East until she found a kinder husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. She began to create a series of lonely, high-strung heroines, and soon fashioned a sleuth, Jane Marple, whose method of detection is based on solid premises: appearances are misleading and to trust is to be deceived...
...ruling Likud coalition has had a bare majority-63 seats in the 120-member Knesset; with the addition of D.M.C.'s 15 seats, it will have a far more comfortable 78-seat majority. In return, the D.M.C.'s leader, Yigael Yadin, 60, former general and world-renowned archaeologist, will become Deputy Premier, and his party will get an additional three of the government's 17 Cabinet posts...
...bygone era when a more confident U.S. could act with a free hand in Latin America. Says David McCullough, author of The Path Between the Seas, a history of the canal: "It is the physical expression of a boundless confidence, one which believed tomorrow will be better. If an archaeologist were to come across only the locks and the cuts in that jungle, his conclusion would be: 'My God, what a civilization it must have been to build this!' " Many people, adds McCullough, feel that by relinquishing the canal "we are saying something profound about ourselves, that we have reached...
More important, Arab Leader Holm denounces the mission of both men-the soldier as well as the archaeologist-as "a rape of our heritage." But nobody pays much attention to what Holm says after he emerges as an opportunist who is only using the colonialist issue to unite the desert tribes in his own drive for power. This is a pity. In view of some of the tacky beach-front resorts that have since been built with foreign money along the Moroccan coast, one cannot help thinking that the fellow really had a point there...
...Archaeologists generally agree that writing first appeared in Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. in the form of an elaborate system of symbols that were probably used for keeping temple records. But where did the ancients get the idea for their epochal invention? A University of Texas archaeologist may have at last provided the answer. Denise Schmandt-Besserat has found evidence that writing evolved from a much older record-keeping system that is still used in the Middle East. If her theory is correct, it pushes the roots of writing back at least 5,000 years...