Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little short of spectacular: exquisitely carved horned gods, plumed serpents, giant sea shells and grotesquely decorated skulls. Not only do they show the skill, imagination and intellect of their Indian craftsmen, but, more important, they offer a revealing perspective on Aztec life. For all their obsession with killing and conquest, the Aztecs (a name given them by 19th century writers from the word Aztlan, their mythic home in the north) were capable of building aqueducts to bring fresh water to the capital, were skilled agriculturalists, wrote lyrical poetry, admired and preserved the artistry of earlier Mesoamerican civilizations and even kept...
...acutely aware of childhood traumas as of childhood dreams of conquest. His memories are shot through with a ceaseless struggle to prove himself worthy, with a sense of rejection as a Yankee in the South and a Southerner in the North, and with the agonizing depressions and deaths of his father and his only sibling Mary Jane. Coupled with an inborn restlessness, those memories have left him all but incapable of repose...
...accustomed accolades and happy omens greeted the birth of an heir at 9:03 p.m., June 21. Yet, the arrival of the Princeling, who is in line to be the 42nd monarch since the Norman conquest, also had some marked differences. He was not born in the dim fastnesses of a palace, screened by courtiers, but in a $218-a-day, 12-ft. by 12-ft. white room, with one rather shabby armchair, at London's St. Mary's Hospital. Both parents had taken lessons in natural childbirth, and his father was in the room all through...
Breslin's Teenager is a monster of social determinism: "Rising out of a blank life, he found his identity depended upon his level of violence . . . His search was for domination, his basic urge was to destroy; sexual conquest for the sake of humiliating a woman was the first duty of a man to himself." Stretched between a Hispanic past and American future, Max imo has the makings of a tragic figure, "his feet slipping each time he tried to turn about." Nicki, foulmouthed, man hungry and bound by family code and prejudice, is almost endearing as she figuratively holds...
...myth is the greatness of the nation," he said, adding that it was the historical mission of an antiliberal elite to build and maintain that greatness. When he became Prime Minister in 1922, after the famous March on Rome, he made it clear that to him greatness meant conquest. He vowed "never to leave the Italians in peace," and, so far as he was capable, he kept his promise...