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Cantabrigians will have an opportunity to see two one-act plays by poet Archibald MacLeish when the Poets' Theatre presents his "The Trojan Horse" and "This Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters" on October 21-24. The two plays, on the same program, will be presented in modern dress at the Agassiz Theatre...
Ever since Ulysses failed to make a prompt return from the Trojan War, the cheers welcoming an end of hostilities have been marred by a few notes of marital tragedy. Korea's Operation...
Almost as famous in Greek mythology as the Trojan War is the tale of the Seven against Thebes. It is all about the sons of King Oedipus. One, Prince Polyneices, got together with seven brave friends to wrest the throne of seven-gated Thebes from his brother. In this fratricidal war, Polyneices and five of his friends were killed in action.* After another war about the disposal of their bodies, they were supposedly buried at Eleusis, 14 miles northwest of Athens...
Greeks, mythological, ancient and modern, have long been the arbiters of womanly beauty, but their local queens have an uncertain record. Venus won the golden apple from Paris the shepherd, but helped him provoke the Trojan War; Callisto won the glances of Juno's husband, and was promptly turned into a bear; Aliki Diplarakou, Miss Greece of 1929, dressed up in men's clothes and smuggled herself into the monks' sanctuary on Mount Athos that had stood, inviolate, since the Byzantine Empire. The following year the contests were discontinued, and in 1936 Strongman Metaxas decreed that...
...third quarter. From among them, Substitute Tailback Rudy Bukich found Halfback Al Carmichael all alone in the end zone, hit him with a 22-yd. touchdown pass. Then, outlasting a Rose Bowl jinx that twice saw California lose to the Big Ten in the final minutes, the hopped-up Trojan defense stopped two more Wisconsin drives inside the 30. Final score, for the West Coast's first victory in seven lean years against the Midwest...