Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Queen Eleanor demands. All this verbal carnage must have deeper roots. Like light glinting off the edge of a steel knife, appearances in The Lion in Winter are blinding. The viciousness and deceit, the shell of anger and the hollowness of despair are masks the royal family wear to cloak the more profound hurt of rejection. If they cannot have love, Henry, Eleanor and their three squabbling sons will have hatred--not merely hatred, but complete and utter decimation of their victims and tormentors...
...more "curious social phenomena of the 20th century," as he rightly observes. It is no easy job, and the word paradox gets used freely. In the end, Lacey, the author of a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh (and a staffer on the London Sunday Times), has spread his cloak over the puddle and gallantly invented a second Elizabeth to walk across it. If this act of prestidigitation is not a work of art, it is a work of considerable artifice...
...where the Spanish had destroyed a temple to the Aztec goddess of earth and corn known as the "Little Mother." When the bishop refused, the Virgin made Castilian roses bloom among the hillside rocks, and Juan Diego took them to the bishop in his scrape. When he opened his cloak, it bore a miraculous painting of the Virgin in unmistakably Indian form, with a brown face and black hair. As Graham Greene once wrote, "The legend gave the Indian self-respect; it gave him a hold over his conquerors...
...Virgin of Guadalupe. Her brown face adorned the banners of the troops that overthrew Spain and those of Zapata's land-hungry rebels. Today she appears everywhere in Mexico, from cantinas to taxicab dashboards to countless adobes. But the original remains on Juan Diego's cloak in the basilica. The cloak is made of a crude cactus fiber that usually lasts about 20 years; this one is still in perfect condition...
...carrying on, how long we don't know," says a Goenka associate. "They can't take us over unless they pass a law. They can make a man a woman, they can do anything. But the day they pass a law to take over the newspapers, any cloak of democracy will disappear...