Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interval of cosmic suspense; the hymns of the heavenly hosts are stilled for the only time in all eternity and the seven angels receive from God the seven trumpets which they soon will sound to wake the dead and resume the symbol-choked tumult. The heavens seem empty, and the old earth trembles before its impending doom. It is during this interim, between life and death, that The Seventh Seal takes place...
...House's polarization of power reaches its extremes in the Appropriations Committee, which can send its bills to the floor without going through Rules. Speaker Rayburn cordially dislikes Cannon, a sentiment which is more than reciprocated. Yet somehow the two old men, each playing by the House rules, seem to balance each other. In 1950, when Appropriations Committee Chairman Cannon pushed his pet "one-package" appropriations bill (all main appropriations in one lump sum so the world could see the awful enormity of it all) through the House, an irate member complained bitterly to Rayburn. Mister Sam only shook...
...have Paulo rubbed out. Rayon agreed, and two weeks later both men met in the bar of the Aletti Hotel in Algiers, where Dr. Lacour pointed out Paulo. Rayon uneasily saw that the boy was wearing battle dress. He told Lacour that ''Algiers did not seem to be the ideal place to knock off a combat lieutenant of the paratroops." Lacour replied that Rayon could kill Paulo after he got out of the army...
...Introduction to Haiku, estimates that 1,000,000 haiku are printed every year. Trains of Reverie. By Western standards, the haiku is far-out poetry. It does not rhyme. The strange nuances -even the punctuation has significance -usually get trampled in translation. The haiku does not even seem to say much; its fragile content defies explanation; its meaning must be found, not only in the haiku's simple imagery, but in the trains of reverie evoked in the reader. Even to the Japanese, this is not always an easy task. A haiku composed by the master, Matsuo Basho...
...greatest work--and of a marvelous capsule analysis of the motivations of one of its characters. "Satan in Paradise Lost," one exam perceived, "is what Milton would have liked to have been if he hadn't gone blind." But then, this bit of biographical lore doesn't seem so bad when compared with the identification of Hogarth as Beowulf's grandfather...