Word: dead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long since disappeared from the murky waters, as has the sturgeon. The hardy varieties of fish that remain-bream, carp, perch and pike-cannot be sold because the river's high phenol content makes them smell and taste foul. Last week even the survivors were imperiled. Millions of dead fish floated to the surface, victims of the worst case of pollution in the river's history...
...that fed the river into purification plants. As rumors swept The Netherlands that nerve gas had contaminated the Rhine, police warned farmers to evacuate their cattle from riverside meadows. Some intrepid souls who still take dips in the rancid waters were dragged from the river. Within hours, tons of dead fish began drifting, belly up, across the border...
Delayed Warning. The Dutch were understandably furious. Five days before they were warned, dead fish, ducks and rats had been observed below the German town of Bingen. Why had the Germans failed to sound the alarm sooner? The North Rhine-Westphalian state government explained that a warning was issued to all German waterworks along the river. But then along came the weekend, and officials simply took off without passing the word...
...Kahn's most memorable scene is still to come, when Henry is handed the list of "the names of those their nobles that lie dead." As he recites the long roster, name by name, a score of men gradually come on stage each wearing a ghostly white mask splotched with fresh blood. Finally the King intones the incipit of a Te Deum, and the ghostly choir picks it up in unison and, in the manner of the Living Theatre, moves down-stage to face the audience in a long row, humming and swaying from left to right--an inspired fusion...
...world of books and scholarship, however, runs the risk of becoming a dead one if it does not in some way relate to the incredible sweep of change that is going on around it. Hofer is deeply sensitive to this problem, probably the overriding problem that the Houghton now faces...