Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joan Tolentino) draws the scene of Iphigeneia's death in a panoply of colors: the yellow beard of the priest, the flowers blue and red and yellow; "I saw the white tents on the ocher sand, / And the staring eye-green sea, and all those men / In their silver breast-plates, and the stones / They laid her on, and the sleeves of her dress--" the saffron dress with the golden border. Then the black and white men of court return and Aegon thinks of "Lesbos when the beach turned gray" and "the gray stallion of the autumn." And finally Clytemnestra...
...found was poor, prone to disease, and generally unexploitable. Timber and fish hardly promised to make him a conquistador. He had no choice but to settle and make the best of what he had. South America, on the other hand, gave much to the conqueror. Taking gold and silver from the hills and sugar from the plains, he could intoxicate himself on pure profit. To aid his enterprise, he domesticated the Indian and imported the African. The settlers, in truth, came to North America and the conquerers to the South; the former invested and the latter extracted and the societies...
Leopard in the Garden. Such an occasion clearly called for an exchange of gifts, and they were lavish. The President gave the 71-year-old monarch a steel-and-silver replica of the sword General George Washington carried throughout most of the Revolutionary War, a Tiffany silver desk set, a 16-mm. movie projector with films of Selassie's red-carpet arrival at Washington's Union Station and an autographed photograph of himself in a silver frame. The Emperor presented the President with an Ethiopian Bible copied by hand on parchment bound in silver and overlaid with...
...Selassie did, however, have something serious on his mind: his sympathy for U.S. Negroes in their drive for civil rights and his high regard for President Kennedy's efforts to aid that drive. The Emperor insisted on meeting N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, laid a 50-lb. solid silver wreath, fashioned from Ethiopian coins, at the Lincoln Memorial. In his forthright speech to the U.N.'s General Assembly, Selassie declared: "The Administration of President Kennedy is leading a vigorous attack to eradicate the remaining vestiges of racial discrimination from this country. We know that this conflict will...
...himself dresses humbly, because a good tailor knows his place. He wears black silk-tweed jackets with silver buttons, and black mohair jeans with white double-stitched frontier pockets. He has always resisted his impulse to drive a $40,000 automobile. He scrapes around in a Lincoln Continental instead, and lives in an unostentatious $250,000 house...