Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Closed Societies. According to Ardrey, every animal society-including man's-is "a group of unequal beings organized to meet common needs." A successful society will form a power hierarchy in which each individual knows and keeps his place; otherwise, relentless competition would doom to extinction any colony composed exclusively of top dogs. The individual is nothing, the group everything, Ardrey says. Hence, for example, it is not just the baboon or the human that evolves but the societies to which they belong...
...England speech. "My hand drifted up and touched my brow, finding it was as wet and cold as the belly of a trout," he wrote in Out of My League. "It was a disclosure which sent the voice spinning off in a cracker-Cassandra's wail of doom. 'Mah God!' it cried out, 'y'all gonna faint out heah. Lawd Almahty! Y'gonna faint...
...bequest to Florence is particularly remarkable for its early-Renaissance works, of which all too few survive. Of the best among them is a St. John the Baptist by the early Florentine master Giovanni del Biondo. The saint's grim, forbidding mien reflects the panic of religious doom that fell on Tuscany at the time of the plague, but the man stands, feet implacably planted athwart the body of Herod, in symbolic triumph. With the gift of Contini-Bona-cossi's St. Jerome, Florence will have one of the half-dozen finest small Bellinis to be seen anywhere...
...still children. No more domineering wives, emasculating women, and "Jewish mothers," all of whom are simply human beings with all their normal ambition and drive confined to the home. No more unequal partnerships that eventually doom love...
...otherwise the Philips cast seems nearly perfect. Tenor Jon Vickers' heroic-sounding Aeneas has both muscle and gentleness; Mezzo-Soprano Josephine Veasey sings Dido with a burnished-bronze quality that can range from love to outrage. As Cassandra, Soprano Berit Lindholm is splendidly equipped to trumpet the doom of Troy, even if her voice is a bit too high for this low-ranging role...