Word: descendance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into that flashback. The first scene, a shelf of books moves slowly back into an entire library. A patron seeks a certain book. There is a story behind the book. Our story. The head librarian becomes wistful, his voice wavy and echoed. We have a movie. From there, we descend once more, from a trial room, into a set of vignettes, each brought on by slow close-up of a portable tape recorder, as the dreamer's voice is raised...
...last, justice for John Burgoyne! To descend through history tagged as a fool and tarred with the nickname "Gentleman Johnny" is hard duty for a commander whose ineptitude certainly was no worse than what is customarily thought acceptable, even praiseworthy, in general officers. Burgoyne bears the responsibility for England's defeat at Saratoga during the American Revolution. He planned and executed the campaign of 1777, but this crisis in the struggle between England and her American colonies came much nearer to turning in a different direction than is imagined in schoolboy history...
...large, the poorer and more primitive the country, the worse the thievery. Says Clemency Coggins, an authority on pre-Columbian art and archaeology: "Not since the 16th century has Latin America been so ruthlessly plundered." Teams descend (sometimes literally, from helicopters) on any of the hundreds of Mayan ceremonial sites that lie scattered throughout Mexico and Guatemala...
...least 12 million people above the usual tourist load will descend on Boston for the 1975-76 Bicentennial Celebration, the Office on the Boston Bicentennial (OBB) announced yesterday...
Israeli pilots who took part in the shooting appeared at a press conference in Tel Aviv; they were identified only as "Y" and "S." They claimed that they had flown to within 15 ft. of the Libyan jet, indicating by thumb signals that Bourges should descend and land at Bir Gifgafa airbase in Sinai. Bourges, they said, made the proper response by lowering his landing gear, and his altitude gradually dropped from 15,000 ft. to 1,500 ft. But he also indicated by hand signals that he was turning west in the direction of Cairo. When he picked...