Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conquerors from the desert or the sea: Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Aramaeans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Byzantines, Arabs. During the 7th and 8th centuries A.D., Damascus flourished as the capital of the Umayyad Empire, which stretched from Spain to India. In the 12th century the Crusaders' brief reign came to a violent end at the hands of the warrior Saladin, who remains a Syrian folk hero to this day. After Saladin's death, his domain fell...
HALL FOR "INEFFICIENCY." Until this year, Hall's staff of associate directors had remained faithful. (Miller and Blakemore, who defected from the National in the mid-'70s, were both holdovers from the reign of Olivier, Hall's predecessor.) Then Pinter, whose plays Hall had been directing since 1962, felt abandoned when Hall left for Bayreuth just as Pinter was staging a troubled production of Giraudoux's The Trojan War Will Not Take Place at the National. Without alerting Hall in advance, Pinter resigned as an associate director of the theater. Last week Pinter told TIME...
According to the legend, two brothers. Sharyar and Shah Zaman, who reign over adjoining kingdoms, discover their wives infidelity and vow that, in retaliation, each will rape a virgin every night and have her killed in the morning. Sharyar's kingdom soon deteriorates as parents flee the country with their daughters. At last, Scheherazade, a local visor's eldest daughter, announces to her father that she has a plan to end the King's murders and he, therefore, must present her to him that night as the virgin...
...yearlong reign is not much fun, according to many a former winner. You address Rotarians, Lions, Kiwanians, Junior Leaguers, and you appear at Miss America preliminaries. Here a blueberry festival, there a strawberry festival, and the odd hog-calling contest comes into the picture too. And you represent the sponsors of the pageant. This year that would be Gillette, American Greetings Corp., McDonald's and Nestlé. Jacque Mercer (1949) once told an interviewer: "You could take an orangutan, and, with a year's training, it would be a perfectly adequate Miss America...
Just two days after the band marched under the new arrangement--a rather limp display against Army on October 1--Crimson Key tour guides began to work under a similar, unprecedented system. Traditionally independent, the guides came under the reign of the admissions office, which wanted more control over the focus of tours given to visitors. L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said he made the move because a survey of admitted high school seniors who snubbed Harvard indicated that the tour did not concentrate enough on undergraduate life...