Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood ran down the steps, you wouldn't have known it," says Acosta. And blood did flow. Acosta found paintings of human hearts with sacrificial knives lying beside. Other archaeologists have turned up shallow dishes cut from the tops of human skulls, as well as a huge red and yellow bowl containing human thigh-and hipbones-suggesting that the Teotihuacanos may have practiced cannibalism. Teotihuacanos also practiced autosacrifice to Chicome Xochitl, a god of flowers. In this rite the worshiper slashed his own finger or eyelids, allowed the blood to soak into porous paper, which was then burned...
...Charged with the halfhearted mission of winning British support for the $5 billion MLF was Admiral Claude Ricketts, U.S. deputy chief of naval operations, who has doubled of late as the Pentagon's Multi-mixmaster. Strategically, he argued, a force of 25 Polaris vessels cruising Europe's shallow coastal waters could not easily be destroyed by Soviet submarines or aircraft. Said Ricketts: "Each addi tional weapons system enhances the credibility of other systems." But R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Slessor called it "mon strous military nonsense," and many other British defense officials agreed...
Carved on a vast block of rock in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo are two facing ranks of six shallow pits with larger hollows scooped out at each end. The same design is carved on columns of the temple at Karnak in Egypt, and it appears in early tomb paintings in the valley of the Nile. It is carved in the steps of the Theseum in Athens, and in rock ledges along caravan routes of the ancient world. Today the same pits and hollows are to be found all over Asia and Africa, scratched in the bare earth, carved...
...fact someone always ruins Vittoria's little pleasures. Her larger desires are never even expressed; and no wonder, for which of the shallow and self-centered people she knows could she communicate them to? She has not put her feelings into words. When Piero questions her--not because he is interested in what she might say, but to keep the conversation going--she can only answer, again and again, "I don't know...
...Pelagia, the Harlot, by undergraduates David Cole and Ronald Perera deserves to be attacked on the same grounds, but much more harshly. If the first opera had a plot with only half a dramatic issue, this one side-steps cheaply a powerful moral question. If the Daunsers exerted a shallow dramatic impact, this opera is simply not a drama, and its production made it all the more a sham...