Word: charioteer
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...hopes on two big-ticket items. The Merkava tank is a new, wedge-shaped machine that can hold up to ten soldiers. Israelis like to point out that its $1.6 million price tag makes it the cheapest tank in the world. According to U.S. experts, the Merkava (Hebrew for chariot) outperformed the older U.S. M-60 tanks during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon...
...truth, Ancient Evenings does achieve some of the cleaning of the slate it sets out to do and goes a ways towards creating a new world, however bizarre that world is. As evinced in the story of Menenhetet, a peasant who rises to the post of First Charioteer in the reign of Ramses II and succeeds in getting reincarnated three or four times--ancient Egypt is a land of many weird rites and customs, filled with magic, telepathy and violence. Menenhetet relates his odyssey from a Nile village to the Pharaoh's chariot in the glorious battle against the Hittites...
...succinctly, Menenhetet's life is a long series of extraordinary feats such as running over a mountain, carrying a chariot or slaying more Hittites than you could ever shake a scarab at--and crashing humiliations like getting exiled to a desert outpost and being sodomized (more than once) by the Pharaoh. These events are punctuated by various hexes and incantations, long processions to one temple or another, descriptions of statues and animals and peasants and eunuchs (many eunuchs) and life in the seraglio and the smell of different perfumes and incenses and precious stones and robes and linens...
...things. The style. The freedom they bestowed. Kerouac and Agee rhapsodized about the great American road, the arteries of the body politic. Kids made love in their cars and made love to them, in spite of a few dark heretics like Social Critic John Keats (The Insolent Chariots), who warned that someone was about to shoot the beast, and Robert Lowell, who, in the poem "Skunk Hour," tied cars to the sickness of the nation. On the whole, in the late '50s the U.S. would sooner have driven a 1957 Chevy than ridden in the chariot of the Lord...
...Riders in the Chariot, by Patrick White...