Word: epithalamium
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...similar to earth. The result of this disturbance was the dark underside of human history, which Lessing retold as much in sorrow as in anger. Now she has traveled past Zone Six to some nicer neighborhoods in her mental landscape. If Shikasta was an admonition, its successor is an epithalamium...
Time was when a man feeling loaded, fond and possibly guilty at Christmas time would hie himself to Tiffany or Cartier and buy his loved one a little something to make her feel like Cleopatra-an epithalamium of emeralds, say, or a modest suburban tiara. The trend in recent years, however, seems to have been away from the unilateral bauble and toward the his and her extravaganza, particularly of the shared, sensory and sensational sort...
...mold of one complete Elizabethan sonnet and part of a second; their postnuptial parting is a Provencal alba (which the Bard may have known through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and which reaches its peak of effectiveness in the second act of the aforementioned Tristan); Juliet declaims a Classical epithalamium; and Paris delivers an elegy...
...negotiable condition, and immediately plunge into hilarious legal struggles to reassert her virginity. To their astonishment, they discover that the girl still has suitors. In fact, by the book's end, Omar is counting up the dowry. The wedding ritual is complete with the virgin's epithalamium-the book's title...
...Epithalamium. In London, Susan Stranks arrived ten minutes late for her wedding to Robin Ray, explained breathlessly: "I was so nervous, I had to have a brandy and a ham sandwich." Pressed. In Vassar, Mich., the Tuscola County Pioneer-Times ran a classified ad: "Dry cleaning for delivery yesterday must be received by noon tomorrow at Clark's Cleaners...