Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peak of God." A green, mountainous finger pointed eastward into Homer's Aegean, the Athos peninsula was thought sacred long before Jesus came on earth. Aeschylus refers to Athos as "the peak of God," and Christians quite happily modified the belief in their own way. According to one legend, a ship carrying the Virgin Mary to Cyprus was blown to Athos by a storm. When she arrived, the pagan idols spoke to the inhabitants, ordering them to pay homage to the Mother of God, who baptized them, and claimed the mountain as a gift from...
Savoring their new prosperity and enjoying once more the sight of long waiting lists, the ship lines are returning to an old and irritating habit of peak-season travel: overbooking. In the somewhat unrealistic fear of sailing with empty cabins because of late cancellations, at least one line has been double-selling several hundred berths-just the kind of behavior calculated to drive passengers back to the airplane...
...ravished soprano perfectly matched the temper of his Berlin theater songs-tough, bragging, wicked, hopeless-and no one could have done more with Bertolt Brecht's lyrics than a singer whose voice combines the chilling qualities of sober screams and drunken laughter. Even now-years past the peak of her career-Lenya's artistic claim frightens other singers off her turf...
...will be divorced this year. There are today almost 2,000,000 divorced (and not remarried) women in the U.S., and more than 3,000,000 children whose parents are either divorced or separated. The U.S. divorce rate, though now only half that of the postwar peak, remains one of the three highest in the world. (Chief rivals: Hungary and Rumania...
...appointment of a respected chemist to chair the present committee is recognition that it is among-scientists that the Gen Ed program most needs a new mandate. But the spiritual energy of the original program has run down elsewhere too. Conceived at the peak of the war effort, the Redbook was drafted with a sense of democratic mission that has since become dated...