Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arabia. U.S. journalist Lowell Thomas was the first to recognize that Lawrence's wartime work -- organizing disparate Arab tribes into armed revolt against the occupying Turks, allies of Germany -- had pop-myth possibilities. Thomas' publicity essentially created the figure known as Lawrence of Arabia, but others contributed to the saga. Robert Graves wrote a life of Lawrence that appeared in 1927, when its subject was only 39. Lawrence told his own story in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which was published shortly after his death from a motorcycle accident...
...REMEMBRANCE (ABC, May 7-10, 14). Yep, there's more. Last November's installment of Herman Wouk's World War II mega-saga was a ratings disappointment. But it left enough dangling threads for twelve more hours and five nights...
Such a grand beginning inspires confidence that we are in the hands of a master storyteller, and Schama's epic history richly fulfills that promise. This saga of revolt and revenge may at first seem somewhat familiar, for it has long been one of the great narrative legends of modern time, told and retold by Burke, Tocqueville, Carlyle and others. We already know -- don't we? -- about the dim-witted King Louis XVI, about Queen Marie Antoinette's supposedly saying "Let them eat cake," and the ragged mobs cheering as the bloodied guillotine rises and falls in its awful rhythm...
Thus late last month began a saga that continues to engage the attention of the scientific world as rarely before. The announcement by the two chemists, B. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in England, while greeted with skepticism, also triggered a kind of free-for-all as researchers rushed to re-create the controversial experiment...
This week, The Liberal Boutique continues the saga of Larry's Misleading Ec 10 Statistics. Lindsey returned to Cambridge last Friday to lecture Ec 10 students on the glories of supply-side economics...