Word: slaughter
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Smoldering Decay. Joanne Greenberg. a Colorado housewife and part-time medievalist, spent five years digging into the historical records on the York slaughter for her first novel. The result is a fascinating and minute examination of 12th century English life. The feudal structure was beginning to decay. Paranoid religious fanaticism sapped the strength of the monastic community, and the power of the baronies was gradually being clipped by the Crown. Lack of funds postponed the start of the Third Crusade, which was expected to revive both faith and the church's fortune. As setback piled on setback, the smoldering...
Also elected were Michael H.P. Belknap, of Leverett House and Winnetka, Ill., Wade S. Hooker, Jr., of Lowell House and Holbrook, Mass., James G. Slaughter, of Quincy House and Haskell, Tex., and Loren Z. Clayman, of Winthrop House and Chelsea, Mass...
...modern nations, on a planet already in train to be unified by speed of communication and travel, by science and the arts, still living in a state of primitive hereditary blood feud? Are not our independent national sovereignties already obsolete? Are we not sick from centuries of mutual slaughter, heedless of our Cassandras, and only to be rescued from pursuing Furies by refuge in an orderly court of law where the wisdom of Pallas Athene can cast the deciding vote? Is the Oresteia of Aeschylus mere antiquarianism? Would that it were...
...wives like to fatten their husbands? Yes, says West-for the slaughter. In one of his stories, wives hold a fattest-husband-of-the-year contest. The overstuffed husbands are hauled to a stadium in gaily draped trucks, then hoisted by a winch to a platform, where they are weighed in turn. For a reward, the winner is cooked and eaten by the admiring assembly...
Remembering the Slogan. Written by Monsignor Germán Guzmán Campos, 50, who has spent almost all his life among the backlands peasantry, the book traces the slaughter back to 1948, when 18 years of sporadic fighting between the bitterly antagonistic Liberal and Conservative parties was climaxed by the murder of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. "His voice," says Guzmán, "was the cry of the rural people, who upon hearing of his death, remembered his historic slogan...