Word: bingham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe romance the couple has its own place for making love. In "Sentimental Education" it is Elgin's room. In The Fume of Poppies it is first an apartment in Cambridge, and later it is hotel rooms and beaches throughout Europe. In "Winter Term", a short story by Sallie Bingham, it is the back seats of cars. In each case the nature of the love nest reflects the tone of the romance: the first a college affair, the second an epic romance, the third a grasping routine...
...importance of sexual inter-course in an affair is clear to Dr. Binger--in many cases it serves to relieve almost unbearable pressure. But that affair may at once have the healthy effect of relaxation and the disconcerting effect of distraction, is evident in Sallie Bingham's description of Hal's thoughts while studying with Eleanor in "Winter Term...
...free world. With this leadership rests a great responsibility. Remember, Australian boys. South African boys, Israeli boys may die as a result of the actions we take. This is a great partnership, and we are not by any means running a foreign policy for ourselves alone." Editor-Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal emphatically agrees. "It is terribly important that we show the world that we are not just acting out of self-interest. If we try to compete with the Soviets just on the basis of might alone, we might find that we have lost a vital...
Romantic History. Hiram Bingham, Yale scholar and later U.S. Senator from Connecticut, set out on muleback in 1911 in search of the lost Indian city, which he was convinced was more than legend. For years there was talk of ruins located far above the Urubamba Canyon near Cuzco, but they were known only to a few local Indians until Bingham came upon "a great flight of beautifully constructed stone-faced terraces, perhaps a hundred of them, each hundreds of feet long and ten feet high." Bingham died five years ago, after spending much of his free time exploring and writing...
According to Bingham, Machu Picchu was in reality the Tampu-Tocco ("Window Tavern") of pre-Inca legend, a mountain fortress maintained by the kings of the Amautas, who ruled the highlands of the Andes for 62 generations. The last king, Pachacuti VI, was mortally wounded in a battle with barbarian tribes of the Amazon jungles, probably in the 8th century A.D., and his body was carried by his loyal warriors to Tampu-Tocco. With the death of Pachacuti, the widespread kingdom of the Amautas broke into pieces...