Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, is an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, and it ranges from the pantomime of weary conquistadors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes to the incandescent white and gold robes of the Inca sun god. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...
...necessary to preserve peace in society, for example, the sages will suddenly and bewilderingly leapfrog into a brief discussion of robbery and the right of the heathen poor to share in the harvest gleanings. Nineteenth Century Historian Isaac Jost compared the Talmud to a great mine, containing "the finest gold and the rarest gems, as well as the merest dross...
...porcine, Prussian-looking fellow cast as General von Choltitz worries less, for during the past year he has got as many off-screen hisses as autograph requests. His name is Gert Frobe, but no one remembers him as anything but that malevolent archvillain in his most famed film. Gold finger...
...arctic. Clearly visible on the surface of the Pre-Cambrian rock, which had somehow escaped the disturbances of mountain building and the pressures of overlying rock, were the fossilized tracks of burrowing, wormlike animals -an encouraging indication that more fossils might be near by. Says McNair: "I knew how gold prospectors felt when they stumbled across the mother lode." Splitting open the rock, he found the remains of 47 primitive, clamlike brachi-opods that radioisotope dating proved to be at least 720 million years...
Chewing into Gold. A mixed blessing that flows from the country's inflation is the rapid climb in wages, which have risen 10% in this year's first six months to an average of $39.30 for a 41-hour week, the highest industrial scale in the Common Market. The rise has stimulated a surge in consumer demand not only for German products but for foreign goods as well. While helpful to the domestic economy, this spur has pushed up imports 22% (while exports have climbed only 10%), thus creating a $1.3 billion balance-of-payments deficit...