Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this then what destroyed Elvis? We suspect so, but all we are certain of is that nowhere do we see the dynamic performer we have been led to suspect. Elvis wears a tight, one piece jumpsuit with an almost Elizabethan collar. It is close to self-parody, except that the costume has no fly, no seam at the croch, and it is too white, too clean and spotless. Not an extension of Elvis personality, it's like a piece of plastic that has been pressed onto his body, like cellophane melted over and onto a couple of thighs of chicken...
...England's Queen Elizabeth II with no clothes on. To the "personal regret" of the Austrian Foreign Ministry the picture of the royal nude even appeared last week in the Vienna Express. Not that the Queen actually posed that way for Photographer-Painter Roland Pleterskithe Elizabethan body in his painting belongs, in fact, to a model named Shin-Tan. The work, Pleterski claims, was an act of admiration. "I chose to do the Queen rather than, say, Jackie Onassis, because she is more important and so much nicer...
Dalila, for example, asked Samson in stodgy Elizabethan English "Wherewith if thou wert bound thou couldst not break loose?" Now she says, "Tell me how you may be bound so as to be kept helpless." In the N.A.B.'s New Testament, the account of Paul's trip to Rome (Acts 27) turns out to be a brisk, realistic shipwreck saga. Too many Bible tales, Sloyan says, had become "sublime accounts more befitting gods than...
...male will with female fruition. Aeschylus introduces the distrust of violence. Eventually, the gods will dissolve sufficiently so that the power of action gives way to that of moral perception. Battlefield gives place to City. The great transformation of the heroic from the Hiad to the Orestcia to the Elizabethan Renaissance, was from Fate to Law to Reason...
...fashion a text that would read well aloud; as a result, many passages now resound with a fresh, rolling cadence even more understandable than the R.S.V. or Jerusalem Bible. In the King James Version of Daniel, for instance, the fate of the wicked was almost lost in Elizabethan prose: when King Darius pulls the unharmed Daniel from the lions' pit and throws in Daniel's accusers instead, the King James Version reports dryly: "The lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom...