Word: relic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoke not a word of English or any other known language. It was days before anyone could communicate with him and learn who he was. Now, half a century later, a new book, Ishi in Two Worlds, by Historian Theodora Kroeber (University of California Press; $5.95), recalls that human relic of a long-forgotten...
Coyne's last chance to make things hot for the government now rests with the Canadian Senate, which must approve the bill before it becomes law. In Diefenbaker's view, the Senate is a relic-its appointed members are supposed to be seen but not heard. The current Senate, though, is controlled by the opposition Liberals, and they have very different ideas. Last week the Senate voted to defer its approval until Banker Coyne has a chance to tell his side of the story before a senatorial hearing...
...reminisced through that long afternoon six years ago, the old man and his improbable stories sounded like a relic from a world that never was. But Karl von Wiegand brought that world alive. He was a living legend, whose very name might have been lifted from E. Phillips Oppenheim. He was the stage version of the foreign correspondent, complete with collar-up trench coat, brim-down hat, and blackthorn cane. He was a man who had known Hitler in 1921, interviewed two Popes, chartered the Graf Zeppelin for a trip around the world, covered twelve wars and been wounded...
...Preservation of the 4½% interest rate ceiling on long-term U.S. Government bonds is still an article of faith among liberal Democrats in Congress, but Heller calls the ceiling a "nostalgic" relic, wants Congress to abolish it so as to give the Treasury more flexibility in managing the national debt...
...spirit. Kubly captures the native moods, sensuous, skeptical, volcanic, and the native pieties-toward nature, the family, and Il Papa. Italy is poor, except that it has been left Michelangelo, Raphael and Dante. The Italian's lot is sad, yet he sings in his chains. Italy is a relic of history, says Kubly, yet no people lives more fully and joyfully in the present moment. Most striking photograph: Venice's cemetery isle of San Michele, with hundreds of white crosses under tall cedars, muted in the morning mists off the Adriatic...