Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...back groups of missionaries who were then flown to the larger centers by the Beavers and a DC-3 borrowed from the U.S. embassy in South Africa. The choppers usually went out loaded with fuel drums, and refueled when necessary-sometimes in the air. Only navigational aids available were ancient and outdated road maps, which were so inadequate that pilots sometimes had to set down in a village and ask for directions. Congolese guides were little help; from a few hundred feet up, the familiar jungle looked utterly strange to them...
...Birdie, a romp about a rock-'n'-roll groaner. On the dramatic side, there are The Miracle Worker, the story of the child Helen Keller and her teacher, superbly played by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke; The Tenth Man, Paddy Chayefsky's modern use of ancient Jewish mysticism; and Toys in the Attic, the savage piece about three women v. a spineless ne'er-do-well...
...most fascinating chapters of ancient history tells about the fabled island of Crete, whose rulers were thalassocrats (lords of the sea) and whose beautiful, bare-breasted priestesses romped in arenas with sacred bulls. Most history books state that the Cretan sea-kingdom, whose capital was Knossos, brought Egyptian and Asian civilization to the then-savage shores of Greece. This theory was largely the work of Oxford Professor Sir Arthur Evans, who excavated Knossos in 1900-05. Sir Arthur died in 1941 at the age of 90, a revered figure in archaeology, but last week he was the center...
Play-by-Play. Sir Arthur's accuser was Professor Leonard R. Palmer, 54, an Oxford philologist whose passion is "digging about and taking a language to pieces." While trying to take to pieces the undeciphered written language of ancient Crete, he became suspicious of Sir Arthur's belief that Knossos was "the most ancient center of civilized life in Greece and with it, of our whole continent." Palmer found what he considered evidence that the stream of culture ran from mainland Greece to Crete-not the other way around...
Cost & Cure. For so French a painter, it is ironic that Normandy-born Poussin did almost all his work outside his native land. After studying anatomy in a Paris hospital, he set out for Rome, where he filled notebook after notebook with sketches of ancient ruins and nearly starved to death. Once, when the Vatican was at odds with Cardinal Richelieu, papal troops tried to beat the Frenchman up. He caught syphilis, and partly to avoid further temptation, married the daughter of the pastry cook who nursed him back to health. The disease left its mark-trembling hands and eventual...