Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jesus himself is a thin ascetic with thick lips, a hooked nose and large black eyes, "full of light, full of darkness-all intimidation and sweetness. Flickering like those of a snake, they stared at you from between the long lashes, and your head reeled." He has had his own portion of tragedy before the story begins; as a young man he had been in the act of proposing to Mary Magdalene when he was felled by an epileptic seizure and carried off frothing. The shock set "proud-gaited, high-rumped Magdalene" on a career that made her the most...
Edifice Complex? Sir: As an American born in Norway, I was startled by the interior of the new American embassy building in Oslo. How Architect Saarinen could create this sinister prison interior with its barred rows of cells (not to mention the snake pit in the center) as symbolic of the freedom for which America stands is incomprehensible to me-as is my former countrymen's enthusiastic approval...
...last minute. Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama tossed Ikeda a block of 49 votes that had cost a reported $280,000, and Ikeda rolled on to win the party presidency on the second ballot with 302 out of 496 votes. Within minutes a crowd of 30,000 leftists formed to snake-dance in front of the Diet and shout "Down with Ikeda...
...different generation and a different world. He still has an in eradicable touch of Texas backlands about him. When he is trying to persuade or cajole somebody, as he often is, he grabs an arm or shoulder in a bruising grip, and a hint of the carnival snake-oil seller shows in his voice. His fellow Senators joke about the lavish vanity of his tailoring and his baronial Senate office?but they respect him, too. Last June the non-partisan Congressional Quarterly polled Senators and Representatives on who they thought would be the Democratic Party's "strongest possible" presidential candidate...
...better to encounter a deadly poisonous snake than a woman," say the Buddhist priests of the Shugen sect, who worship the Eight Dragon God, Hachidai Ryuo, at the temple of Japan's Mount Sanjogatake. For 1,300 years the Shugen monks have seen to it that no female climbed their mountain or entered their Ryusenji Temple. Undisturbed, they practiced their ascetic disciplines-walking barefoot through fires of logs and leaves while reciting sutras, plunging into freezing pools, hanging by their ankles over vertiginous cliffs while confessing their sins. (A favorite fillip of the monks is to dangle novices carelessly...