Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other ships looked like black bugs under the blazing desert sun. Alongside, white, shimmering sand on the rock-filled banks slipped silently by. Cars and trucks sped by occasionally on the canal highway. Beyond, in the rolling desert, djinns of dust spun with the wind. Occasionally we saw a camouflaged gun position, a snorting dredge, a rowboat with a fisherman and his son watching their nets...
Though he does not see the Qumran sect as the originator of Christianity, Allegro feels that it profoundly influenced the first Christians. Withdrawn into the desert from the persecution of a corrupt priesthood in Jerusalem, holding in contempt the scribes and Pharisees (whom they called "Seekers After Smooth Things"), the Qumran community practiced baptism, chastity, community of goods. They wrote the ritual of a Messianic banquet with breaking of bread and blessing of wine, which Allegro boldly suggests may prefigure the Last Supper and Christian Communion. They expected the imminent end of the world and the coming of two Messiahs...
...lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics had a too-familiar ring. ("If fate should hurt you/ I won't desert you/ We'll be together/ In stormy weather...
Jordan's reprisal was to kill three Israeli Druze watchmen at an oil camp in the eastern Negev desert, not far from where Jordanians had ambushed a busload of Israelis last month. Next night a powerful Israeli army force-some 1,000 troops according to Jordan sources-slammed twelve miles across the desert frontier into Jordan and, supported by artillery and bombing planes, wiped out a police post at Gharandal, almost midway between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. Jordan reported ten police, National Guardsmen and civilians killed, eight wounded...
...explains: "The whole point of a family party is that you don't have to talk. It would ruin it if you had to be thinking of things to say." But once Maggie is launched into the world beyond Boston, her own superficiality merges into the larger cultural desert. In this hostile territory. Author Howe seems nearly as dazed as her heroine and falls back on those staples of the lady novelist: faithfully recorded but unexciting dialogue, minute cataloguing of the interiors of houses and the exteriors of people...