Word: solomons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word, no. But it reminds me of 1874. Imagine! W. E. Gladstone attacked papal infallibility in his pamphlet, The Vatican Decrees, Solomon introduced the pressure-cooking method for canning foods, Richard Wagner completed Götterddmmerung, and Wingfield invented lawn tennis. And, oh yes-civil marriage was made compulsory in Germany...
...wealthy young artist named John Linnell and Linnell's teacher, John Varley, who later used them as the basis for illustrations for their published treatise on zodiacal physiognomy. But the notes on the margins indicate that Blake sincerely believed he was drawing the faces of Socrates, Solomon, Richard the Lionhearted, Job, John Milton's first wife and the Saxon King Harold from life or, at any rate, from afterlife...
...MARIHUANA PAPERS edited by David Solomon. 448 pages. Bobbs-Merrill...
...book was put together by David Solomon, whose qualifications are limited to the fact that he is a former editor at Esquire, Playboy and Metronome, and his bias is plainly evident. Smoking marihuana, he says flatly in his introduction, is not so harmful as cigarettes or alcohol, and should be legalized...
...aggression launched by the church, with license for every kind of excess in the name of Christ. That the same body that could impose the Peace and Truce of God should be capable of rejoicing in a cargo of Saracen noses and thumbs or of filling the Temple of Solomon with blood has been the dark paradox of religious faith in every time and place. Just and holy wars are incompatible. The just war is predicated on awareness of human intemperateness, inadequacy and guilt; the holy war drowns all that in the joyous, irresponsible assumption of being an instrument...