Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...galleries of Manhattan's Asia House last week, but the 65 stone heads, statues and reliefs on exhibit seemed to owe almost as much to the West as to the East. On loan from the government of Pakistan, these peaceful figures are the graceful legacy of an ancient civilization that to this day remains partially wreathed in mystery...
...established a "little symphony" to play rare music - both ancient and mod ern - extended the symphony's subscription series from 8 to 22 concerts, tripled both the budget and the total season at tendance. The Seattle Symphony now includes 85 musicians, nearly a third of them women; the majority have to hold other, daytime jobs (aircraft engineer, longshoreman, school bus driver) to supplement their $2,000 pay; many teach music. Above all, Katims introduced 75 works never before played in Seattle, e.g., Orff's Carmina Burana, Mahler's monumental Resurrection Symphony, Walton's Belshazzar...
What do Sartre, Graham Greene and Laurence Olivier have in common? They are all involved in a modern trend toward an ancient heresy, Manichaeism...
...pidgin English wafted last week from the screen of one of Nigeria's 45 open-air cinemas. A commercial for Barclays Bank of England, written in the local "High Life" beat, the short cartoon has become so popular among West Africans that it vies for equal billing with ancient Tom Mix westerns and Charlie Chaplin slapsticks. It also pleases Barclays: savings accounts have almost quadrupled since it started showing the film. Says Barclays' Advertising Manager Kenneth J. Lashmar...
...eyes are an ageless blue, but the ancient Signora Partibon is dying. Life flickers in her like needlepoints of sunlight refracted on a palazzo ceiling from the Grand Canal. She grips the hand of her grandson Giorgio and thanks him for his visit ("Now the whole family has come"). But Giorgio, incorrigibly honest, utters a long-banished name: "One of your sons, Marco, is not here." In a paroxysm of coughing, the old lady dies...