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...lavish feast described by Petronius in a fragment of the Satyricon, a penetrating report of social life in the days of Nero. Trimalchio, the host, was a wealthy freedman with more farms "than a kite could flap over," and so many slaves that "not one in ten has ever seen his master...
...grain sales to Communist countries, the Commerce Department authorized the export of 2,600,000 bushels of corn to Hungary. The first sales, involving Minneapolis' Cargill Inc. and Manhattan's Continental Grain Co., amounted to $4,306,860-just a few kernels compared with the $250 million feast that is anticipated when the Communists start buying wheat...
Thirteen centuries later, Philip II defeated French forces at the battle of San Quentin. By that victory he turned the tide to bring the Spanish Empire to its highest glory. Because it took place on Lorenzo's feast day, Philip decided to put up a monument to the saint, the empire and God - built on the plan of a. gigantic gridiron...
...last in 1586, El Escorial was consecrated on the eve of San Lorenzo's feast day, with 200,000 oil lamps illuminating it so brightly that the glow could be seen in Toledo, 50-odd miles to the south. Its walls stretched 675 ft. by 530 ft., embracing 16 courtyards, 4,000 rooms, 86 staircases, 88 fountains and 100 miles of corridors. Philip had commanded his architects to create "simplicity in the construction, severity in the whole, nobility without arro gance, majesty without ostentation." Except for the gables, almost every line in the facades is dead straight; the exterior...
Jack, a crafty bully, stalks away in a sulk one afternoon, and most of the boys desert Ralph and Piggy to follow him and put on face paint, dance around fires and feast on roast pig. The new savages deify the beast that is supposed to haunt the mountaintop; as an offering to the terrible thing, a pig's head is struck on a sharpened stick and left in the woods. Readers of Golding's novel know the nature of the beast before the boys do; the movie audience is kept in witless suspense until it is revealed...