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RAF
See Royal Air Force
Raft, George (1895-1980)
148; American tough guy of gangster films
ragusy
462; ancient Mediterranean warship
225; In 1950, he succeeded his grandfather, Louis II, as 26th ruling prince of the House of Grimaldi which dates from 1297. In 1956 he married Grace Kelly. They produced Prince Albert (b. 1958), Princess Caroline (b. 1957) and Princess Stephanie (b.1965); See also Kelly, Grace; Wikipedia
Raoul
35; "television writer" (360) and one of The Whole Sick Crew; lives with Slab and Melvin; described, 56; 347; 360
Rape of the Chinese Virgins, The
See L'Enlevement de Vierges Chinoises
Ratón
176; Venezuelan Consul-General in Florence; Salazar's chief
Realgymnasium
253; German: "a secondary school with scientific emphasis"
Redeemer
271; aka Jesus Christ; 453
259; Bridgman: "the Basters [from "bastard"] were a half-caste people [...] from legally recognized and religiously consecrated unions between Dutch men and Hottentot women. The Basters spoke Dutch and proudly carried Dutch names." [1]; MORE; 262;
Renassaince, The
157; Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1883) was written by Walter Horatio Pater (1839-94), English critic and essayist. He was associated with the pre-Raphaelites, a brotherhood of artists formed in England in 1848 to restore the artistic principles and practices characteristic of art before the Italian painter Raphael (1483-1520)
"retreat into abstractions" 310; "Retreat, then, into religious abstraction. Retreat also into poetry" 315; "to come to a halt, about-face and toil back along his own retreat's path; back towards the real world" 316; "his poetry began to show the same 'retreat from retreat'."317; "Again the classic response: retreat." 319; "a bugle to play retreat" 375; "this loathsome weakness of retreat into dreams" 459; "a retreat into late-afternoon melancholy," 489;See also history; nostalgia
retroussé
45; French: "turned up"; 103
112; American labor leader and one of the founders of the United Auto Workers (UAW) for which he was president from 1946 to 1970. He was a vocal opponent of the communist wing of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to which which the UAW belonged. He was president of the CIO in 1952 and worked for the merger with the AFL in 1955, but in 1968 he led the UAW out of the AFL-CIO because of differences with George Meany.
Revere Beach
350; "that's public beach now where slobs from Boston who'd be at Revere Beach except for too many other slobs like themselves already there [...]"
r-f energy
377; radio frequency (those frequencies used for radio communications, viz. about ten kilocycles per second or over)
Rhodes
459; Greek island in Aegean Sea, largest in the Dodecanese
457; town located at the mouth of the Grand Harbour opposite Valletta; [[Map of Malta]
Riesman, David (1909-2002 )
354; American sociologist and educator. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1958 and at Harvard from 1958 to 1980. Probably best known for the book The Lonely Crowd which he co-authored in 1950. Wikipedia
Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-91)
388; French poet who used childhood, dream and mystical images to express dissatisfaction with the material world and a spiritual yearning
Rire, Le
407; French: "the laughter"
"Ritrati diversi"
209; corridor where Botticelli's Venus is hung on the western wall
Robert, Louis Phillipe
393; duc d'Orleans, the current Pretender in 1913
"He had been short and built like the island of Malta itself: rock, an inscrutible heart." 19; abandoned quarry, 24; "Only this quarry: the dead rocks that were here before us and will be after us." 26; Profane "tripped over a rock," 42; "The younger girl produced from her reticule a rock," 68; "toss imaginary rocks about," 82; "bones that should be alive, not rock rods under the flesh," 86; "a faceless delinquent heaved a rock at [the bus]," 96; "This mineral period ended," 100; "What religion is it [...] where the highest condition we can attain is that of an object--a rock." 106; "creatures all at peace among the rocks," 215; "She was sitting in the rockery [rock garden] with old Godolphin." 246; "after braining an inquisitive goldfish with a rock" 248; stonemason, 261; "tossed what was left behind a rock for the vultures and flies." 263; "sleek dark rocks," 270; "huddled among some rocks," 275; "the gray of pulverized rock," 275; "the non-humanity of the debris, crushed stone," 307; "as the Ark was to Noah so is the inviolable womb of our Maltese rock to her children" 318; "stone and metal cannot nourish," 335; "Seek mineral symmetry, for here is eternal life: the immortality of rock." 340; "in that return from the rock was nothing to confess." 345; rock 'n' roll, 360; "they found a rock near a stream," 391; "'Rocks [...] He always looks for rocks." 430; "The characteristic stillness [...] of the rock. Inertia." 445; "Ask the rock." 451; See also entropy; inanimate
Rodriguez
112; on rat patrol
roister
256, 330, 333, 430
rollicking
125; 244; 295; 296; 302; 329; 371; 380; 382; 415; 477; 481
Romegas
462; one of two privateers who "captured a galleon belonging to the chief eunich of the Imperial Seraglio" in 1565
Rond-Point
84; in Cairo
Rosebery, Earl of (1847-1929)
166; Scottish statesman
Route 66
433; blues tune ("Get your kicks on Route 66") played by Chobb and Zippo at Union Jack in Valletta
routinization of charisma
mosaic v. grid, 139; "If a season like the Great Rebellion ever came to him again [...] it could never be in that same personal, random array of picaresque acts [...] but rather with a logic that chilled the comfortable perversity of the heart, that substituted capability for character, deliberate scheme for political epiphany" 273; "to begin with optimism" 310; "Fausto's [poetry] had fallen into the same patterns." 316; "we reach a point [...] where the habits of the past become too strong," 459; "The Church [...] has passed from promiscuity to authority." 480
69; aka Ralph MacBurgess, "peregrine and penniless in the Fink" (70); vaudvillian who's "daft for young girls"
Royal Air Force (RAF)315; British air force; 331; 491
Royal Commandos
323; green-beret-wearing British troops; in Malta en route to Suez, 428; free-for-all with Scaffold sailors, 439; led by Dahoud, 441
Royal Geographical Society
191; 197
Ruby
281; prostitute girlfriend of Sphere's; aka Paola (Hod) Maijstral; 291; 295; 349
rue de la Chaussée d'Antin
394; The rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, in the IXe arrondissement of Paris was the street that gave this new quarter of Paris its generic name. It runs north-northwest from the Boulevard des Italians to the Église de la Sainte-Trinité,[1] sited to provide a focal object at its upper end. It has the Metro station Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette and one section of the Galeries Lafayette department store. Wikipedia
rue de Ras-et-Tin
66; in Turkish quarter in Alexandria
rue La Fayette
394
Rufina
176; wine
Russian Fleet
246
35; bar on lower West Side on outskirts of Greenwich Village in New York; hangout of Whole Sick Crew; 102; 129; 221; 224; song, 224-25; Mondaugen and Stencil in, 228; 283; 296;
References
- ↑ Bridgman, Jon M., The Revolt of the Hereros, Univ. of California Press, 1981, p. 25
