Word: huns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dinosaur's Dinner. At times, tiring of the earth's-end theme, Clarke pulls a switch, reminds his readers that mankind, whose veins run with the blood of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun, is the more likely aggressor, could cut a dreadful swath through the tentacles, feathers and eyestalks of the galaxy's gentle people. But the best story in Across the Sea of Stars uses the solar system's most venerable gimmick, the time machine. A crew of paleontologists is digging out the 50-million-year-old tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur. The leader...
...doors (opposite) bear four bas-reliefs representing four saints of charity. They show St. Martin of Tours cutting his cape on an icy night to share it with Jesus, appearing as a beggar (upper left); St. Severinus, who died near Salzburg, helping a woman out of prison during a Hun invasion (upper right); the execution of St. Engelbert Kolland (lower left); and St. Francis offering his cloak (lower right). In the center a sheaf of wheat and a cluster of vines, symbolizing the bread and wine of the Eucharist, serve as the door handles. Like Manzù's bronze...
...something of a mystery. Few people can "dance calypso" (there is no formal style) or sing it in the shower. In Trinidad, its place of origin, it was sung extemporaneously, first by plantation workers and later by semiprofessionals with such exotic names as the Growler, Attila the Hun and the Lord Executor. The lyrics might relate some back-fence gossip, reflect on the paternity of a neighbor or comment on political news. In Trinidad some of the semipros still sing, mostly for rum, at public concerts in "Tents" (often palm-thatched bamboo shacks). In the U.S. there have been previous...
...Marxist doctrine and repeated pledges of allegiance to the Kremlin. Only a few dissident notes were heard, most of them sounded by 41-year-old Antonio Giolitti, a grandson of Giovanni Giolitti, who was five times Premier of Italy under the Savoy monarchy. Said Antonio Giolitti: "In Poland and Hun gary the party has been best defended not by those who keep silent, but by those who openly admit the mistakes of the past ... If the men who now lead are incapable of changing, we must change them...
...continued rebellion in Hun gary, the Vatican deplores it. "Whatever the consequences," said a spokesman, "the Pope and Vatican cannot but feel deepest anguish at the continuing bloodshed...