Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told by women of the Sare tribe, however, the legend differs slightly. They believe that the first woman climbed down from heaven on a beanstalk, on her arrival was already wearing the plugs given to her in heaven. To be strong, fer tile and wise like their first ancestor, Sara women also wear the ugly plugs...
...realization of his increasing duty to maintain the mens sana in corpore sano, each student must steel himself to shun the more debilitating comforts of modern life. His ancestor, before the era of central heating and indoor plumbing, was fit to meet the charges of heresy and decadence leveled by the spiritual forebears of Clerk Dorgan and Senator McCarthy...
...have in one house "the grandson of one of the greatest modern novelists [James Joyce], the grandson of one of the greatest modern painters [Henri Matisse], and the great, "great, great, great, and ad infinitum grandson of God [i.e., the son of the Aga Khan]." But the days of ancestor worship are more or less over, and in point of prestige, the Harvard clubman has become the vanishing American. Once, Theodore Roosevelt, 1880, could happily blurt to the Kaiser that his son-in-law was Porcellian ("A mighty satisfactory thing to be in the Pore"). In 1954, such fathers...
...small, usually intimate gatherings. "He is just a retiring man who suffers in society," says his only son, Jacques, 27, who is a businessman in Paris. Attractive to women, a man of taste (his Paris apartment houses a Goya, a Reynolds, a portrait of Madame's distinguished Napoleonic ancestor Murat), and a fancier of cats (because of their independence and aloofness), he was once described by a friend: "There is an 18th century fragrance about him. He is a portrait on a cameo from the time of Louis XV. One almost expects ruffles and a powdered wig." But another...
...furnacelike heat of the North African summer, the Moslem holy day of Aid el Kebir rolled around. On that day the heads of Moslem families sacrifice a ram in memory of Abraham's sacrifice of a male sheep in place of his son Ishmael, ancestor of all Arabs. One ram, the most important of all, is ceremoniously knifed by the Sultan, who is regarded by the Arabs and Berbers of French Morocco as their spiritual and temporal sovereign. On Aid el Kebir last week, the knife was wielded not by Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (who had reigned since...