Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Royal astrologers in Thimphu, Bhutan's capital, had delayed the ceremony until they were satisfied that all the signs were in order, but the investiture, once begun, proceeded with flawless splendor. As the King approached the courtyard of the Tashichhodzong, the fortress and monastery that serves as the seat of government, lamas wearing miter-shaped red silk hats and red woolen robes walked in procession ahead of him, and barefoot male dancers in wide silk skirts described intricate patterns in the courtyard. Forty more monks stood on the roof of the building and blared out a discordant fanfare...
...ancient Umayyad mosque and the Turkish baths. There she startled her conservative Muslim guide by asking whether men and women had ever bathed there together. The horrified guide said, "Oh, no, no!" He then added that women had been allowed to bathe but separately. In Israel, she toured the fortress at Masada where Jewish zealots made a suicidal last stand against the Roman Legion in A.D. 73. Later she helicoptered to the ruins of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. Near the site, she chatted in fluent French with a Franciscan friar...
...Dance of Death is one of the most concentrated visions of unmitigated nastiness ever staged. Edward, a drunken, boorish army captain, lives with his venomous wife Alice in an island fortress off the bleak coast of Sweden. Bills go unpaid, the paint peels, and their children-small wonder-avoid them. They approach their silver wedding anniversary with only an astonished resentment that each could have deprived the other of so much of life...
...team has uncovered many buildings and artifacts in the Turkish soil. In 1973 the expedition unearthed an impregnable fortress once admired by Alexander the Great. Diggers discovered its ten-foot thick walls by following a hunch that an inconspicuous stone might belong to the ancient structure...
This mini-five-foot shelf will not be the last word on Faulkner. The valuable tools of scholarship have not cleared a path toward the subject; they have built a fortress around it. What the hook's appearance signifies, however, is that the people whom Faulkner referred to as "academic gumshoes" have asserted their clammy hold upon him. In graduate classrooms across the country, students now will be required to read the book. Sad news, that, not only for Faulkner and his readers but for such writers as Pound, Eliot and Wallace Stevens, whose "definitive" biographies have...