Word: blacksmith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aphrodite who led us on. For starters, according to one account, she was created from the genitals of the god Uranus, who had been hurled, dismembered, into the sea by his ill-tempered son Cronus. Her husband was Hephaestus, blacksmith to the gods and the ugliest fellow in the pantheon. This may explain why Aphrodite lost no time in fooling around with squads of other gods and not a few surprised mortals, among them an obscure shepherd or two. It is no wonder that Aphrodite should continue to be so seductive even to this day. Underachieving, oversexed...
...lovely incongruity, weight lifters took over the symphony hall, and to a harpist's rendition of The Harmonious Blacksmith, Cuban-born Roberto ("Tony") Urrutia tried his hand as an American. The three-time world champion, who defected seven years ago on the end of a bedsheet in Mexico City, finished third in the middleweight class to two former countrymen. Fidel Castro sent them his congratulations: "You taught an exemplary lesson to the traitor." Urrutia declared he was glad to be free, "like a bird," but the / medal ceremony was bittersweet. "When I hear the national anthem," he said wistfully...
...that the capacity to produce such conciliatory agreements as the Great Compromise may be the genius of the American system. House Speaker Jim Wright praised the "art of honorable compromise," adding a mild rebuke to the likes of Oliver North for ignoring congressional strictures: "Laws hammered out upon the blacksmith's forge of compromise have commanded observance from even those who disagreed with the wisdom of the laws. And that is what real patriotism comes...
...steady growth and now has three large general stores, one bank, high school, drugstore, hardware, harness and furniture stores, millinery store, meat market, two hotels, restaurant, two farm implement houses, photograph gallery, undertaker, opera house and lodge hall, telephone exchange, two poolrooms, barbershop, two livery barns, one auto livery, blacksmith and machine shop, newspaper, three elevators, lumberyard and three coal yards, feed mill, creamery and flour mill and two dray lines...
With thoroughness and grace, Hugo Vickers, a British critic and journalist, traces the answer back to Beaton's obscure beginnings and follows it to a precipitous summit. Cecil was the grandson of a blacksmith and the son of a timber broker. There was nothing to be done about ancestry, but the future was another matter. Young Cecil confided to his diary, "Even in my dreams I long to make Mummie a society lady and not a housewife...