Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a setting, Josh seems to pale to transparency, while Lexy glows with a passion that finally ignites Miri. At novel's end the cousins know that if they marry, it will be to each other. Only in this ending does Author Sourian, himself of Armenian descent, make an overt slip in his knowledgeable treatment of GreekAmerican customs, for consanguineous marriages up to the third cousin are regarded by the Orthodox Church as incest. At 24, Boston-born Peter Sourian is master of a style that is fresh, natural and ebullient. His characters define themselves in the language...
...never conquered. While medieval Europe fought and languished, the university of Fez gathered scholars from all over the known world. The Moorish empire reached into Spain, building aqueducts, huge irrigation systems, and the great Alhambra at Granada. The present Sultan is of a dynasty founded in 1660, claims direct descent from the Prophet's only daughter, Fatima. This gives him baraka, the spiritual quality that makes it lucky just to kiss his garments and gives him special title to spiritual (as well as temporal) leadership of his people...
...singers, Jo Linch as the medium and Barbara Blanchard as her daughter, contribute performances quite astonishing for their power and surety. Miss Linch's voice, while never becoming harsh, possesses just the right quality to project the rather angular music which Menotti has written to depict the spiritualist's descent into horror. And Miss Blanchard, whose singing carries a lovely, lyrical quality did not faulter for a moment even in the highest passages. Her rendition of the ballad-like piece which opens the opera was entirely captivating. Both young women, furthermore, are not only fine singers but actresses...
...Protestant England even the most carefully chaperoned visits could start tales of convent immorality. He alarmed the hierarchy by bursting into Cornelia's convent. Bitter over the furor that arose, Pierce retaliated by taking their three children to Italy. In 1848 he returned to England, made a second descent on the convent, and raged at the chaplain for six hours because Cornelia refused...
...York City being the biggest Irish (umpteen millions of actual or sentimental descent) and biggest Jewish (more than 2,000,000) community in the world, few events could set the town more on its ear than the arrival of Dublin's Jewish Lord Mayor Robert Briscoe for the St. Patrick's Day parade. On Fifth Avenue, green-cravated Mayor Briscoe. having gone to synagogue that morning, graced a reviewing stand that groaned with the weight of politicians and their relatives. Among the dignitaries: the city's Mayor