Word: winded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wind shall say: Here were the decent people...
...countries have bought translation rights. Thus, with a paperback edition scheduled in the U.S. in October.* Roots is well on the way to becoming one of the bestselling books in years, though it has far to go to catch up with Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, which has sold 21 million copies, in hardback and paperback, since...
...historians well into this century, had it that blacks were innately lazy and incompetent, capable of working only under compulsion. In this view, blacks were childlike innocents, perhaps biologically inferior; slavery, whatever its excesses, was a generally benign means of giving the colored people civilized ways. Gone With the Wind carried that general message...
...human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?" So wrote Dante 600 years ago. Even in his age, the idea of individual flight was an ancient desire. Today no fantasy remains more universal than that of the airborne human, riding updrafts like a bird. Most people restrict their air travel to those steelbound auditoriums shuttling back and forth between continents or coasts, an experience that comes no closer to free flight than watching a rerun of Twelve O'Clock High. But as British Science Writer Peter Haining relates in his delightful chronicle...
...Compleat Birdman wittily analyzes the unearthly urge that inspired biblical figures, Leonardo da Vinci and just about everyone else who ever wanted to trade the land for the wind. Here is Simon Magus, an early Roman necromancer who rose skyward (possibly by means of a balloon) before a crowd that included St. Peter. To the relief of the early Christian spectators, Magus suffered an instant-and fatal-crash. Haining wistfully relates the tale of Bladud, a doomed 9th century British king, who borrowed a page from Greek mythologies and perished like Icarus with a pair of feather-and-wax wings...