Word: athena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zeus, "god of power," who first used it to overthrow his father Cronus and control the Titans, those symbols of chaos -which Berle assumes is the one thing power can't abide. The plot thickens as Zeus gives birth to the world's first intellectual, Pallas Athena, who says of her father, "I never thought he had any brains," and then proceeds to fill that lack by showing him to what intelligent uses power can be put. Zeus also symbolically sires Apollo, the first creative artist, because "power has always sought the assistance of the arts" to answer...
...more graphically than Aristophanes intended, but that was alright. It made me catch several that I'd somehow missed before. There were several other nice touches besides Harmony, a role filled (and how) by Laurie Campbell--including a calypso chorus to Lysistrata, and a folk-song paean to Athena. the nicest, though, was to give the Spartans ten-gallon Stetsons and Texas accents. It sort of gave you a better idea of what Demosthenes was up against...
...with Gigli and his photographic gear, piled into a large Cadillac that the driver liked to boast once belonged to Pope John. When they moved to the island of Rhodes, they had to hire donkeys to carry themselves and their equipment up the steep approach to the temple of Athena at Lindos...
...lead piece in the second special university issue of Negro Digest (March 1969). This is an important communique, and one that Harding knows will infuriate many of the black militants who scream for new Afro-American studies departments to spring up fully-armed on northern campuses overnight like Athena from the head of Zeus. The issues Harding raises here will not be popular, but they are ones that must be realistically faced and dealt with by all involved. At any rate, for the next few years the American campus is going to be a most exciting field of battle--whether...
...changed. Take the case of New Mexico Rancher George Farr, who last week had to fight off not rustlers but the U.S. Air Force. Farr was driving 500 head of cattle from his ranch to a rail head 40 miles away; the Air Force was about to fire an Athena missile from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, N. Mex. Farr figured that the cattle and the second stage of the missile would reach the same piece of trail at the same time, doggedly persuaded the Air Force to reschedule the shoot and give the cattle right...