Word: bede
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crisis in Confidence: When Birnham Wood was brought to Dunsinane, there were those who regarded this program as the first sincere public reforestation effort since the Venerable Bede. Often overlooked is the circumstance that this action occurred at a time when there was a severe erosion of confidence in the government of Scotland. Somewhere, in all this, there is a lesson to be learned, and this generation of Harvard men has learned it. They probably learned it from the sayings of Chairman Mao, now made respectable by the vice-president. For example...
...When the Colosseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, so will the world." So said the Venerable Bede in awe 1,200 years ago, at the 1st century's most famed amphitheater. The Colosseum, though battered by earthquakes and ruthlessly despoiled by late Renaissance builders who stole its facing stones for the Farnese, Barberini and Venezia palaces, has long been an image of megalithic permanence. Not any more. Last week Roman authorities took the extraordinary step of closing the Colosseum to visitors indefinitely...
...first-hand experience (an argument she used several years ago in explaining what she viewed as the limitations of women's literature). The reading of the fiction under Hardwick's discussion becomes a shuffling of "great colorful playingcards," because from Richardson to Hawthorne to George Eliot's Adam Bede, women are neither fully tragic heroines nor psychologically complete people. They are just so many characters composed of arbitrary qualities that work for the author's conception of plot...
...September Sam either had quit managing the Sea Anchor or had been fired, it was never quite clear to Merilee which. He devoted himself full time to his sculpturing in the garage. Tools and blowtorches were expensive and had taken all Sam's savings. Merilee worked at the Bede Game on her propitious days...