Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Viet Cong-held territory would be interspersed with strongpoints controlled by the Saigon government. Word soon reached Saigon's functionaries that any village that was to be regarded as government-controlled should be marked with flags-which reminded some observers of the origin of Passover, when the ancient Jews smeared their doors with blood to keep away the angel of death. Often using paint procured by American district advisers with U.S. funds earmarked for "high-impact projects," pacification cadres and Popular Force soldiers began painting the most hotly contested villages first. In many cases, armed guards...
More serious is the argument that discipline and rigor are essential to the primary business of the military: preparing men to kill and to endure the personal danger of death. Nearly all the legendary armies of history have been harshly trained and regimented. The model is ancient Sparta, whose youths spent 23 years, including their wedding nights, in soldiers' barracks and could be fined merely for showing...
...less memorable uttering an occasional phrase. When Little Big Man announces that he has a wife, Old Lodge Skins inquires: "Does she show a pleasant enthusiasm when you mount her?" The question seems not lascivious, but full of paternal concern. When he prepares to die, the ancient Human Being chants a prayer and stretches supine before his Maker. Result: nothing. His answer: "Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't," gives new credence to the speculation that the Indians are one of the lost tribes of Israel...
...popularity of the ancient art among today's youth seems eminently logical to San Francisco Tattooist Lyle Tuttle, who is profiting handsomely from the resurgence. "Tattoos are merely another physical form of expression," he explains. "A way to say something intimately with your body." In the past year Tuttle has tattooed members of more than a dozen Northern California communes. "One group was really weird," he says. It "grooved on the cosmos−each one was tattooed with specified planets, and together they made up a kind of an astronomical map." Tuttle's most celebrated client was Blues...
...live in a destructible world, yet somehow we must go on building. An ancient myth says that Amphion had a golden lyre, given him by Hermes, to whose strains the stones of Thebes rose one above another until the city walls were built. Not only must the city walls of world security, if possible, be built: some edifice of the spirit must be built also and built by us to house the soul of man in an epoch to come. That will be the labor of many brains and many hands, yet the spirit of man is not many...