Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of the apocalyptic vision vouchsafed the apostle John on the island of Patmos, there occurs a moment of strange quiet: "And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." It is an interval of cosmic suspense; the hymns of the heavenly hosts are stilled for the only time in all eternity and the seven angels receive from God the seven trumpets which they soon will sound to wake the dead and resume the symbol-choked tumult. The heavens seem empty, and the old earth trembles before...
Laissez-Faire Marriage. William Lamb, Lord Melbourne, was born to aristocratic ease. He belonged to the great Whig dynasty, whose members "took on the task of directing England's destinies with the same self-confident vigour that they drank and diced." Lamb was never certain who his father was because, as he put it, his mother "was not chaste." But he grew up with a sense of security in his close-knit, comfortable family, early developed a spirit of reasonableness. He fled his first fistfight at Eton with no sense of shame: "If I found I could not lick...
...trimmed with white lace, is absolutely ravishing as the shameless, lying wife Angelique (note Moliere's ironic use of this traditional name from Italian farce); it is easy to understand how anyone would want to seduce her, married or not. Angelique is, not to mince words, a bitch in lamb's clothing, a sort of female lago; and Miss Hays does her just right...
...town seemed anxious to make a killing by running the contraband across the Mississippi into Minneapolis. In Minneapolis itself, Mrs. Florence Kennan's butcher, as a favor to a good customer, slipped her a hot copy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press-wrapped to resemble a leg of lamb. Two people fainted in the crush of eager newspaper buyers around a downtown Minneapolis newsstand. Hyman P. Shinder's kiosk, the biggest in town, collected a crowd each Sunday dawn, even though Shinder's consignment of papers from Minneapolis' twin city does not arrive until 8. Every...
Since there are too few voters for Western-style political rallies, most campaigning was done in Pakistan's exclusively male teashops or candidates' homes. After politicians passed the word that curried lamb and spiced pilau would be served to voters and their families, some homes were so crowded that the government dusted off an old regulation forbidding more than 35 guests to be served at a time. Well-heeled candidates even rented elegant bungalows and hired entertainers and night watchmen, aiming to keep voters out of reach of other candidates until the time came to haul them...