Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this approach, though, that the book ultimately founders. The canon, it would seem from reading Leibowitz's digressions on everything from Paul Valery to obscure ancient Greek dramatists, is alive and well--and certainly formative in most Americans' sense of themselves...
...airport for days at a time. An estimated 12,350 sq. mi. of Brazilian rain forest -- an area larger than Belgium -- was reduced to ashes. Anticipating another conflagration this year, scientists, environmentalists and TV crews have journeyed to Porto Velho to marvel and despair at the immolation of these ancient forests...
FAIRPORT CONVENTION: RED & GOLD (Rough Trade). When this British group started up in the late '60s, their music was called "folk rock." Two decades on, the phrase is shopworn, but the band's music -- graced by some ghosts of ancient traditional melody -- is as splendid and mysterious as ever...
Hudson Professor of Archaeology Kwang-chih Chang is offering a new Historical Study B course on "Complex Society in Ancient China. And Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is once again at the helm of Historical Study A-12, "International Conflicts...
...Forest Service defends the logging on the ground that the timber industry is vital to the Western economy. But conservationists counter that too much of the ancient forest is already gone and the destruction should stop. Thus the forests have become the hottest battleground in a broader war between the forces of economic development and the armies of conservation being waged from the wetlands of the East Coast to the oil-stained shores of Alaska's Prince William Sound...