Word: puissant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ENGLAND, the "noble and puissant nation" of Milton's poetry, is dying. As the characters in Margaret Drabble's The Ice Age grapple with the meaning of that decline, England's hard times--the "Ice Age" of the title--come to dominate their lives. IRA bombs explode, the economy stagnates and Drabble's heroes try to pick up the pieces. If most of them at the end are not much better off than when they started, the same happily cannot be said for the readers of this wry, compassionate, and suspenseful book...
...VISCONTI HOURS Edited by Millard Meiss and Edith Kirsch. 262 pages. Braziller. $35. This facsimile reproduction of the Visconti Book of Hours was originally commissioned sometime before 1385 by the puissant Count, later Duke of Milan, Giangaleazzo Visconti. The first part ended with Giangaleazzo's death in 1402. Some ten years later the book was resumed when his son became duke. For one reason or another, the two volumes were not united until 1969, when the second part was donated to Italy's National Library in Florence. In beauty and inventiveness The Visconti Hours fully matches the more...
...comebacks, a couple of semi-Cinderella teams stumbled into the 1971 Super Bowl. Both the Baltimore Colts and the Dallas Cowboys have been prime contenders for the championship game since it began in 1967. The Colts reached it once-only to lose; Dallas, despite innumerable preseason predictions that the puissant Cowboys were certain winners, never made it at all. In this Sunday's encounter in Miami, both teams will be less concerned with replenishing their bank accounts (each player on the winning team will receive $15,000) than with banishing their reputations as losers...
That Martha Elizabeth Beall Jennings Mitchell should find herself, at the age of 52. one of the most noticed women in such puissant company has been a surprise to herself and just about everyone who knew her?certainly in Pine Bluff...