Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell (Seabury, 1977). "We're all bastards but God loves us anyway," Campbell says, and his memoir is a beguiling personal sermon on the same topic...
Such considerations have not dampened the enthusiasm of flower farmers, and their fondness for Helianthus at least has a historical precedent. When Francisco Pizarro's conquistadors invaded Peru in 1532, they found Inca priestesses wearing sunflower emblems-symbolic of the sun god-on their breasts. The material: solid gold...
...proportions, larger than the countless works of art that have tried to contain him, from Moliere and Goldoni through Byron and Shaw. The fascination of his enigmatic psychology is apparently inexhaustible. He has been seen as a Punch-like comic character; as a tragic hero, or Nietzschean rebel against God; as a walking textbook of sexual pathology. He survives all interpretations. He will survive even this one: an opulent but confused and wrongheaded adaptation of the greatest of all Don Juan stories and perhaps the greatest of all operas, Mozart's Don Giovanni...
...Muisca Indians, who dwelt in the highlands near present-day Bogotá, installed their kings by dusting their naked bodies with gold and then washing them in nearby Lake Guatavita. To complete the ritual, they dropped gold and jewels into the holy waters as offerings to their god...
...postwar history of a social class in a paragraph. She can effortlessly keep three levels of memory working in a seamless narrative. But in the end the stories are simply there-haunting, enigmatic, printed with images as sharp and durable as the edge of a new coin, relentlessly specific. "God protect us from generalizations," said Chekhov, the writer whose work Gallant's most resembles. "There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble...