Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisp December morn in 1472, and on a stubbled field near the Duke of Gloucester's castle at Pleshey in Essex, solid ranks of warriors confront each other. Above the castle flies the White Rose of the House of York; across the field the wind whips the Red Rose banners of Lancaster. A flight of Lancastrian arrows reaches Yorkist ranks and the battle is on. Sweaty long-bowmen in the front lines loose their shafts; behind them, -dismounted, armored knights prepare themselves. The field is alive with cries of pain and anger and the untidy flow...
What did they all do? Traditional Christian teaching holds that God created angels partly to adore and praise him-like a duke, forming his own opera company to entertain an audience of one-but also to serve as intermediaries between the worlds of spirits and of men, between Heaven and Earth. Angels intervened, visibly or unseen, at every moment of God's enterprises, beginning with the largest of all: keeping the universe in motion. Tasks were dealt out among the various grades of angels; so vast a society obviously needed a pecking order. The structure of this heavenly bureaucracy...
...only do the Wolverines have strength on the boards and impressive? depth, but every starter on the squad is a potential 20-point scorer. Sophomore?? forward Henry Wilmore, who poured in?? 40 points against Duke two weeks ago ?? is Michigan's current leading scorer?? and one of the best forwards in the?? country...
...Wolverines' record is only 2-3, but its three losses were to sixth-ranked Notre Dame, Kentucky and Duke. With those three close contests for starters, Michigan rolled to two victories over area teams last week...
...J.J.G. Alexander. Unpaged. Braziller. $25. Like the slender archways in the works of early Flemish masters, this tiny, devotional book opens on small worlds of piety and delight. It is a facsimile re-creation of a Book of Hours made, circa 1478, for the daughter of the last great Duke of Burgundy by a master miniaturist. His biblical figures, mock tourneys, glimpsed landscapes and rich borders decked with acanthus rolls, peacock feathers, shells and fabulous birds and beasts brilliantly profit from the example of the Limbourg brothers and Jan Van Eyck...