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Before we left Chengchow the officials gave us a banquet. We had two soups. We had spiced lotus, peppered chicken, beef and water chestnut. We had spring rolls, hot wheat buns, rice, bean-curd, chicken and fish. We had three cakes with sugar frosting...
...Prize. A land of deserts, mountains and rich coastal valleys, Tunisia (pop. 2,608,313) has been a world trouble spot since antiquity. Here fabled Dido was consumed in flames. Offshore Ulysses' sailors were lured by the lotus-eaters. From Carthage, whose ruins lie near the present city of Tunis, Hannibal's legions moved against the Roman Empire. It was Cato the Censor who urged on the Romans in the Punic wars with his famous slogan: "Delenda Est Carthago" (Carthage must be destroyed...
...elaborate exorcism of devils from his five-week-old son, in rural England. A champagne party followed long wordless rites that included an anointing, attaching of cords to the baby's body, and removal of a lock of hair, which was wrapped in a lotus leaf and set adrift on the River Bourne...
...Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of Tides, and possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas, was quietly at school in Lausanne, Switzerland. There he has been learning English. Next September, when he comes of kingly age (17), he will formally ascend Thailand's Golden Lotus Throne...
...single thread of melody. In the traditional Indian dance-forms, the dancers moved hands, arms, shoulders, necks, more purposively than their feet. Lithe, hollow-cheeked Bhupesh Guha became the god of spring, his fluttering hand a bee alighting on a flower to drink honey. Willowy Sushila was the lotus-born Lakshmi, placing buds at the feet of Vishnu, her arms and hands moving with the deliberate grace of a cobra. Bhupesh Guha became a hunter with tasseled spear, stalking the tiger, wary, fleet, then charging in for the kill. His frenzied ritual dance around the slain animal, joined by three...