Word: nameless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the nameless artists whose duty it was to record his glory, Assurbanipal was as fierce as he was fearless. His chief business was war, and no victory seemed quite complete unless his enemies could be slowly tortured to death before his eyes. The days of victory did not last forever. The king's scribes duly recorded Assurbanipal's thundering lament: "I did well unto god and man, to dead and living. Why have sickness, ill-health, misery and misfortune befallen...
...most of the paintings are portraits-the faces of scores of now nameless men and women who, in their way, wanted to be remembered...
...majority of the artists are nameless, too, but from those who can be identified, historians have put together a picture of an ingenious lot. Jolly "Aunt Ruth" Bascom of Gill, Mass, liked to produce portraits by standing a subject against the light, tracing out the silhouette, and then filling in the face later...
...rhymed octaves (following the rhythm of Byron's Don Juan) are Ko, a young Japanese pitcher who earns a tryout with the Dodgers and throws with such force that he shatters grandstands: Dog Boss, a financier who has cornered the pooch market; Amaranth, the king of England; a nameless but enchanted fish; and Huddel, a cockney. The cast might have come from the nightmare of a blintz-tormented sorcerer, and its actions provide no political, religious or metaphysical insights...
...child-descended, 7 lbs. 3 oz. and still nameless, was scarcely 24 hours old before his mother's subjects began deciding on his future. He stands second in line to the throne after Prince Charles. Would he have to follow the dreary tradition of most royal sons, growing up in uniform only to lead a life of ceremonial drudgery? "A royal prince," suggested the London Express, "who was a doctor or a nuclear physicist or an engineer-that would be a break with tradition...