Word: ur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the beginning this "legal-minded people" had something to argue about, although they did agree about their origins. Johnson sifts the archaeological record and concludes, as does Genesis, that Abraham the patriarch came from Ur, a Sumerian city excavated in the 1920s and believed to have flourished in the fourth and third millenniums B.C. Such corroborations of ancient texts by modern scholars suit the author's purpose, which is to condense legend and fact into a flowing historical narrative...
...subdued. He took no part in the stylistic revolution launched by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. His poems stubbornly scanned and usually rhymed. In The White Goddess (1948), he built a huge edifice of eccentric scholarship to prove a personal point: poetry arose in the worship of the Ur-Female and could only be brought back to life by returning to this adoration. That was his lifelong mission, and his love poems praised both joy and sorrow: "Take your delight in momentariness,/ Walk between dark and dark--a shining space/ With the grave's narrowness, though not its peace." Robert...
...Boston College... Harvard has now lost more games than it did all of last season...In two league contests, the have scored 32 goals. They scored 66 in Ivy games a year ago... Yesterday's loss was Harvard's worst since a 14-2 thras at the hands of Ur six years ago. Harvard dropped a 15-6 decision to Loyola in is season opener this year that before yesterday held the distinction of worst loss since the 12-goal loss...
America's most influential interior decorators; in Nantucket, Mass. A onetime architecture student at Princeton, the ur bane, diminutive Baldwin emphasized elegance without sacrificing comfort. His clients included Cole Porter, Jacqueline Onassis and Diana Vreeland...
...past, some scholars have pursued the idea that there is a universal "our song": the Ur-song that is said to run through the imagination of every child in the world, an eerie universal croon. Actually, it need not be eerie. For all we know, the Ur-song may turn out to sound like the opening bars of Perry Como doing Hot Diggity. - By Lance Morrow