Word: kingdome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago the enlargement of the European Community from six to nine members, with the entry of the United Kingdom, Denmark and Ireland, was celebrated in Britain with a month-long "fanfare" of concerts, galas and enthusiastic speeches dedicated to the dream of a united Europe. Today that fanfare has become a cacophony of disenchantment. The bigger Community has emerged as nothing more than a bigger bureaucracy. There is no will to move forward, no consensus on what political form Europe should take or even how to begin to make unity a reality...
...find, they never discovered the truth. Because if there is such a thing as truth it is as intricate and hidden as a crown of feathers." It seems as though Akhsa would have done as well to stick with "the castigating words of the prophets, who never mentioned the Kingdom of Heaven or the resurrection of the dead. All they promised was a good harvest for good deeds and starvation and plague for bad ones...
Many of our species apparently prefer to regard humanity as elevated from the rest of the animal kingdom by virtue of a "soul" or other such mystical paraphernalia. Some, however, see the species as animal in origin, and regard sexuality in the same light. Opponents of pornography who argue that it is bestial in nature, and reduces human activity to the level of animals, are quite correct. This is, perhaps, my reason for being bored with current pornography. But it is beside the point. Pornography is not a popular view, yet it is a coherent one, one which...
...turbulence on several fronts. Consumers are angered by inflation; since last January, prices have risen more than 17% and rice prices alone have soared 50%. The students remain restless because they feel that the reforms have not yet gone far enough to end the corruption and injustice in the kingdom. The Thai labor movement, which has just won a boost in the minimum wage from 600 a day to 800, has flexed its new muscle by calling 142 strikes, most of which were settled quickly...
...lovers and courtiers exist. Boucher, unlike Watteau, had no vision of a fragile society whose pleasures, no matter how refined, are menaced by time. Boucher painted pleasure as though it were a perpetual state, coquetry without end, threatened by neither satiety nor boredom. The elements that constitute his afternoon kingdom take on a preternatural luxury as objects; the sky, swarming with clouds of putti and looping swags of fabric, itself acquires the crisp sheen of taffeta or Chinese silk, dyed, rinsed and gleaming; landscape and woods undulate in a feathery quiver, surprised in the act of love...