Word: sivas
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...drawing back the tent flaps," she writes, "snowdrifts gleaming on the towering black peaks and, a long way beneath them, a wobbly line of light from the pilgrims' lanterns descending the far hills and inching across the plain." The ice cave at Amaranth lay ahead, offering Siva's boon, "a release from the fear of death, not from death itself...
...explore their remote islands as a private citizen. He savored delicacies unknown in Boston ("I like squid, to my astonishment, and rather enjoy banana soup"), and he also savored the half-naked girls who anointed themselves with coconut oil and gyrated around him in a dance called the Siva ("as superb a creature here as the world has to offer...
...Third World comes close to being a metaphysical entity: that element in humanity which has not yet been machined down by technology and bureaucracy, though it may very well want to be. The Third World, he writes, "wavers between Buddha and Marx, Siva and Darwin, Allah and cybernetics." It is "a reflection of a past that antedates Christ and machines; it is also a determination to be modern." Paz concedes the course of events. "The Third World is condemned to modernity and the task confronting us is not so much to escape this fate as to discover a less inhuman...
...Artzybasheff's computer [April 2] looks, and probably is, a contemporary Siva, the many-handed god of procreation, conservation, and ultimately destruction...
...distinguished lawyers, including former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, hired by the Cambodians, Britain's onetime Attorney General, Sir Frank Soskice, and Belgium's Henri Rolin, in the service of the Thais. Cambodia's case: a path leads from Cambodia directly to the shrine of Siva, the god to which the temple was dedicated; in 1930 and 1953, Cambodian officials went to the temple on pilgrimage picnics, establishing a sovereignty of sorts. Furthermore, an old French colonial map puts the temple in Cambodian territory...