Word: caving
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Like many Greek tragedies, Philoctetes draws upon the Homeric epos for characters and situations. At the outset, the great Greek archer, Philoctetes, is languishing in a cave on Lemnos, abandoned by his army because of an infected foot. Odysseus and Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, come to Lemnos to persuade Philoctetes to give them the bow of Heracles. Without it, says the seer Helenus, the Greeks will never capture Troy. After many a stratagem and one deus ex machina, all three embark for Troy with the bow. Sophocles artfully balances these three characters so that at one pole Odysseus represents super...
...speak of the complete obscurity of the King James Version to modern minds and then give a wonderful example of how it is going to be "improved." "Den of thieves" becomes "robbers' cave." Of course no modern understands the word thieves, and as for den-horrors, the word is virtually cryptic...
...Olive Branches. All the militiamen Castro has mustered so far-10,000 men with Soviet-bloc guns-have not been able to rout the rebels out of their rocky, cave-pitted hillsides in the Escambray mountains 170 miles east of Havana. The fighting is small-scale but so bitter that militia units are losing their taste for the chase. Castro, like Batista before him, has resorted to promising common criminals their freedom if they will fight. For the rebels, help from the outside increases: the Escambray has received much of the 40 tons of opposition arms airdropped into Cuba; small...
...says. "Chinatown was wonderful: an egg roll and two bowls of chow fan for 40?. A little concentrated on the calories, perhaps." Precociously peripatetic at 15, Ancel spent the summer in a lumber camp, left school midway through the year to shovel bat manure in an Oatman, Ariz. cave. "Great fun," says Keys. "I slept out in the desert with the other desert rats. I'd hate to think what we ate. Stews and sourdough bread, I guess...
...reading aloud, and that the modern expressions used would not be out of date in 50 years. Example: the King James "den of thieves" did not become "gangsters' hideout" only because it was thought that the '20s expression might not last long enough. The compromise: "robbers' cave...