Word: digs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MASADA by Yigael Yadin. 272 pages. Random House. $12.95. A reverent and absorbing account of the archaeological dig at the rock of Masada on the Dead Sea, where, almost 2,000 years ago, 960 Jews died when the Romans breeched the walls of their aerie. Yadin has himself seen battle; he was Israel's Chief of Staff (1948-52) before turning archaeologist. Totally engrossing...
...fancy; as the poet broods on the ancient games, he also rather absurdly sees capitalist corruption symbolized amid the Roman ruins by "powdered pederasts," "urinating whores," and a "society lady" swooning with delight as a gigolo pulls off her nylon panties. Then again, he takes a good-humored dig at the Western preoccupation with spy movies and has a ball with a Bond take-off entitled Impressions of the Western Cinema. He envisons a future state of espionage technology when even roses are bugged and he evokes a worldwide convention of secret agents meeting under the banner...
...Your Essay "Why Ho Keeps Saying No" [Nov. 11] fails to explain Ho's determination to dig in. As you noted, a Communist military victory has become virtually impossible, yet Ho continues this war that each day devours more of his country's vital resources. He has another goal in mind. As his nation grows weaker, world opinion against American participation in the war becomes stronger. Now we stand almost entirely alone in Viet Nam. Ho realizes our predicament and knows that each death we cause brings us lower in global prestige. His negotiating with us would help...
...chin." Systematic excavation has been halted since before the war. Most of Herculaneum still sleeps beneath millions of tons of volcanic stone; all of the forum, for instance, the heart of every Roman town, is completely enshrouded. "It seems incredible," Deiss concludes, "to discover a buried treasure and not dig...
...which publishes the W.R.D, "In psychological jargon," he explains, "those who experiment with rats are called 'rat runners,' and those who work with insects are called 'bug runners.' So we are 'worm runners'-and we're proud of it." Not enough scientists dig McConnell's logic-or humor. Some will not publish their work in a journal with so frivolous a name. Editors of other psychological journals refuse to allow their contributors to make any reference, however valid, to the W.R.D. "We even had trouble with librarians," says McConnell. "Many of them...