Word: bough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mature sense in which it is true. Viet Nam may have been a hallucination. It was surely a warning, though one not always easy to read. It was also a kind of national rite of passage, a great power learning Kipling's lesson the hard way. In The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer describes how a tribesman chosen to be king must be enchained and thrashed before his coronation. The moral may be that a nation, like a king, needs a little chastening perspective...
...Dowling (H) d. Dave Bough...
...news stories, interviews and the amiable atmosphere of a Sunday brunch. Says Editor Ron Neil: "You cannot machine-gun people with information at that time in the morning." The program massages them with it instead. The hosts (modestly called presenters, not anchors) are the avuncular Frank Bough, a veteran of the British sports program Grandstand, and the fetching Princess Di lookalike, Selina Scott, whose alluring television manner may heat up cold winter mornings. But the hit of the first show was the "Green Goddess," a supple Valkyrie named Diana Moran, clad in green leotards, who gently bullied bemused and bleary...
...Scientific Revolution and Sir WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams and Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres and Frazer's Golden Bough. And George Meredith's works, especially his Essay on Comedy. And H.G. Wells' Time Machine and The Outline of History and any good history of the U.S. And Cardinal
...James George Frazer, The Golden Bough...