Word: burial
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Fell writes that Libyans and Egyptians traveled up the great rivers to Iowa and the Dakotas; he says the ancient burial mounds found in many parts of the Midwest and the East are actually the work of the same ancient voyagers. A clay tablet found in a mound in Iowa carries identical messages in three languages: Egyptian, Punic, and Libyan, Fell claims. The publicists for America B.C. like to compare Fell's translation of this tablet to Champollion's 19th century translation of the Rosetta Stone, which enabled archeologists to read Egyptian hieroglyphics...
Once upon a time you might have thought that Sophocles wrote Antigone to describe the peculiar burial practices in ancient Greece. But in the new version of the play, The Passion of Antigona Perez by Puerto Rican Luis Rafel Sanchez, which director Vincente Castro brings to the Loeb Mainstage March 3-6 and 9-12, the determined girl who wants to bury her dead brother becomes a symbol for all those who resist repressive regimes. Creon appears not just as a stubborn ruler but as the biggest, most demanding dictator of them all. Even the Greek chorus has a place...
...definitely complex. The gym is on the fourth floor of an old building, the coaches can't recruit, scholarships are forbidden, and there is little if any serious alumni support. However, Harvard basketball is almost always respectable. After one disastrous season, Michael is breaking out his shovel, but his burial plans are just a little early. Judging a very young and inexperienced team on the basis of its first four games is absurd, and any objective reporter, not to mention a home-town one, would not make such a mistake...
...want their own secluded beaches badly enough, Rare Earth offers 2,700 acres of Caribbean frontage in Colombia (asking price: $1,700,000), 454 acres on a Fiji island ($1 million) or 30 acres in Tahiti ($150,000). Mountaintop retreats? Van Haefton has 20 of them. Also an Indian burial ground in California, a 1,400-acre canyon in Mexico, an obsolete ICBM base in New York State. As for whole islands, Rare Earth lists 400 for sale, including, Van Haefton says, "one in Nova Scotia for $16,000 and another in the British Virgins for $8 million...
Sports writers feel obligated to offer alibis for seasons gone astray. There's a sense of importance in such requiems I guess; the official burial by the press. And it's something to do when there are no playoffs to cover...