Word: tracee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Hashemite caravan has been a long and winding one. The principal reason for the fanatic support that Hussein received from Bedouin warriors in Jordan is that the King can trace his ancestry back to the Prophet Mohammed. Thirty-seven generations of Hashemites were traditionally Grand Sherifs, or rulers of Mecca, Islam's holiest city, until they were forced out in the early 1920s by the Saud family. At the time of the Saudi takeover, the Grand Sherif of Mecca was Hussein, great-grandfather of the boy Kings. The Sherif thought he had found a way to refurbish...
...doctrine of the Trinity discloses partiality in leaving out of deity all trace of femininity. One of the three should be a she. To manifest divinity required a real nativity, and that required maternity, a woman's creativity. Which one of the three should be a she? Because the cosmos needs a hostess we recommend: Father, Son and Holy Ghostess...
Tomalin and Hall trace Crowhurst's disjointed early life in India and in English boarding schools. He possessed a genuinely inventive mind and considerable gifts and training in electronics. He often showed wit and daring, especially as a dashing young officer. He had an uncanny ability to get himself canned and rehired in ever more promising posts, as well as great skill in finding backers for disastrous business ventures. When Tomalin and Hall come to Crowhurst's last voyage, they do not belittle the skill and courage of a man who did, in fact, sail an ill-prepared...
...years, portrait painting absorbed most of Porter's energies. Attacking portraiture with his customary canny vigor, Porter tried to speed up the normally tedious process and devised a simply constructed portable camera obscura. By projecting the subject's facial outline onto paper, Porter could, in 15 minutes, trace a likeness, fill in the features, and collect...
...trying to trace the reasons why the first phase of the sexual revolution started, and how it changed, through the currents of literature . . . showing how literature reflects certain sides of our life, the way diamonds reflect life-or the way a broken bottle does. From culture criticism it got bigger and bigger until I was almost making a political philosophy." Kate started the thesis in February of 1969, finished it in September, revised it until March 1970, when she defended it for her Ph.D. "I was really afraid to write this book so much. I used to go crazy with...