Word: charioteer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHARIOT OF FIRE...
Thus British Historian E.E.Y. Hales sets the stage for an engaging theological fantasy that would have done credit to the late Anglican author C.S. Lewis. Like Lewis' Great Divorce and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan section of Man and Superman, Chariot of Fire suggests that hell is what one makes of it -and so is heaven...
Brock suddenly becomes the indispensable man in the middle. Satan needs the Limbo Line to transport cannon across the bottomless mud of the gluttons' Third Circle. The archangel Michael, ready to wage another Miltonic war against Satan, needs the railroad to carry his chariot of fire across the same...
...They may oppose direct elections to a European parliament and object to ratifying the International Monetary Fund accords reached last January in Jamaica, an agreement they view as symptomatic of Giscard's shift to supranationalism. Beyond these skirmishes, the two men are, in the words of Historian Chariot, "condemned to get along." Chirac told Wierzynski, "I will not flail in all directions in an irresponsible manner. So long as there is no major change in the policies of France, so long as I am in the majority, I have no intention of provoking a crisis...
...moneysaving (and -making) chariot is a Peugeot 504, powered by a diesel engine. At a list price of $8,260, the French-made Peugeot does not exactly qualify as low-priced. But the obvious economy of driving diesels is attracting more and more U.S. motorists: while diesel fuel costs about the same as gasoline, diesel engines get up to double the mileage. From 1974 to 1975, sales of diesel cars (mostly Peugeots and West German-made Mercedes) almost doubled in the U.S., rising to nearly 25,000 vehicles. Although sales this year are down, partly because of lower imports, Detroit...