Word: harems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside the Stadium, on the other hand. Harvard coach Joe Restic gloated over his team's very impressive performance. "I've got no first string quarterback," he said, with the happy shrug of a shiek making his nightly decision outside the harem...
...everywhere, whether or not she was in heat. Sometimes his feeling was returned, and in that case something like a chimpanzee marriage was made. At times sexual fidelity was a part of the contract. At the other extreme, one of the dominant males would sometimes try to assemble a harem. At the first opportunity, the females usually flew the coop...
Ottoman sultans ruled an empire from Baghdad to Vienna for most of four centuries, but their personal lives back home in Constantinople's Great Harem of Topkapi were mainly a matter of bed and bored. One 17th-century sultan, aptly called Ibrahim the Mad, became so bored that he spent much of his time tossing gold coins to the fish in the Bosporus alongside the Topkapi Palace. One day, harem-scare-em Ibrahim ordered his 1,001 concubines trussed, weighted and tossed into the sea-and, of course, replaced. But between fits of madness, Ibrahim and the 24 other...
This week, after 32 years of restoration, a third of the 400 rooms of the Great Harem, which in the past were rarely seen by any but sultans, concubines and eunuchs, are to be opened as a tourist attraction. The restoration, a labor of love that also serves the political purpose of showing modern Turks the decadence of the old regime, is to continue indefinitely...
...Great Harem was abandoned in 1909 when one of the last of the Ottoman sultans, Abdul Hamid, was exiled to Salonika with a few of his favorites; 370 concubines, old or second-rate by the Sultan's standards, and 127 eunuchs were set free. Now the Turkish Ministry of Culture is planning to make Topkapi Palace the focus of a "cultural revolution" featuring concerts, poetry recitals, ballet and re-enactments by the National Theater of the tragedy of Ibrahim...