Word: petra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John William Burgon, a 19th century British clergyman and minor poet, wrote a memorable line when he described ancient Petra as "a rose-red city half as old as time." Romantic, inaccessible, it lies in the midst of a vast desert in southern Jordan, and today, as always, its only approach is through a deep, narrow gorge called the Siq, which tradition says was created when Moses struck the rock with his rod. From 300 B.C. to A.D. 100, when Petra flourished as the caravan capital of the Nabataeans, the Siq made the city impregnable, since...
...their pots and pans and cried: "We are your guests." The law of the desert says that water must be shared, and that forced Abou Ben Spiegel out of Jebel Tubeiq. Recently at El Jafr, the company has moved prudently from water hole to water hole, will soon reach Petra, where, according to local legend, Moses struck the rock that gushed water. ¶ On Vieques, an island nine miles off the east coast of Puerto Rico, Director Peter Brook is doing a film version of William Golding's superb novel, Lord of the Flies, in which 30 boys, aged...