Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never-ending colonial demands for independence, few things have so touched and intrigued Britons as the political yearning of Malta, the rocky little Mediterranean isle whose 320,000 inhabitants earned a collective George Cross for heroism under Axis air assault during World War II. Instead of independence, the Maltese under the leadership of fiery, 41-year-old Prime Minister Dom (for Dominic) Mintoff have asked for complete integration into the United Kingdom and the right to send three M.P.s to Britain's House of Commons in London...
...drew roars of approval for a slashing attack on Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's determination to keep the colony of Goa. Cried Menon: "We may have to send a realistic map of the world to Salazar to prove to him that Goa is not near the Mediterranean...
...years of steeping himself in antiquity, Britain's Novelist-Poet Robert (I, Claudius; The Greek Myths) Graves had never been to Rome. Last week, resplendent in a white formal evening shirt, pink tie and embroidered gold vest, Traveler Graves, 62, long based on the Mediterranean isle of Majorca, finally made his first appearance on the scene of many of his writings. To the dismay of Roman antiquarians, he refused to go near the Colosseum or other ruins: "Why should I visit ruins when the shops are so good?" In high good humor, he recalled a fanciful previous visit...
Later, grown to manhood, Abraham migrated to Canaan, on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, with his childless wife Sarah, his brother's son Lot, his slaves and herds. The land he found was anything but the primitive pastoral society Bible scholars assumed until recently. The excavation of the ancient cities of Ugarit and Mari in the 1930s shows a culture already old in Abraham's day, which was celebrated for its music and art, bronze work and historical and religious epics. Diplomatic and commercial documents preserved on clay tablets indicate that Abraham, a rich man now, must...
Most tourists believe in love at first site. Hurrying and scurrying about, they rarely stop to court an insight. Three unhurried tourists currently grace the book counters with travel accounts that are wise, witty and uncommonly well-written. Laving their individual sensibilities in the "implacable light" of the Mediterranean littoral, these writers perceive and share the region's Antaeus-like grip on life for life's sake...