Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past six years, Doxiadis has invited 30 or so distinguished architects, businessmen, politicians and academics to a week-long superseminar on environment problems aboard a chartered Aegean cruise ship. Most expenses are paid by Doxiadis-who may or may not be a millionaire-and assorted wealthy friends. The trip always ends at the island of Delos, sacred to the ancient Greeks as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, where a formal summation of the results is read in the ancient theater. The event suggests that growing numbers of what might be called glamour intellectuals are drawn to the idea...
Benign Bullfrog. On the sixth day of the symposium, the participants began drafting a report of their doings, which became the declaration to be read Friday evening. Delos is truly a holy place. It is the psychological center of the Aegean, the union point of Greek clarity and Greek mysticism. In the evening light, the sky takes on blues and oranges and greens, the sea becomes deeper, the moon blazes in the sky. But neither the place nor the rhetOTIC now seemed equal to the distant crises that these people had tried to discuss all week. The wind was rising...
...archaeologists have identified at least a dozen different layers within Schliemann's hillside. None of these historic Troys, Berve savs, would in any way be familiar to the Iliad's readers, except that they overlooked a plain near the Aegean Sea. In fact, the layer that most closely coincides with the date suggested by Homeric scholars for the Trojan War (circa 1200 B.C.), and that is known as Trov VI to archaeologists, seems entirely improbable as the battle site. Berve gives two reasons: 1) the fortifications enclose an area where no more than a few hundred people could...
...chocolate cake was trundled out bearing the whipped-cream legend: "To Alexander, the Pride of the Family." The family had gathered at Aristotle's seaside villa south of Athens to celebrate the 21st birthday of Alexander Onassis, heir apparent to his father's fortunes. Earlier, the soft Aegean wind had carried rumors that Alexander would commemorate his coming of age by defying his father and announce plans to marry New Zealand-born Fiona Thyssen, 36, his frequent companion and 16 years his senior. But Ari is a tough man to defy. When the birthday party moved...
...remarkable triumph of sight and sound. Though the opening scenes are somewhat workaday Rossini, the opera comes into its full glory in the third act, which begins with an unusually long (14 minutes) aria by Home. Rossini's lyrical melodies shimmer and flow as beautifully as a moonlit Aegean. Then, before the curtain falls on the burning, ravaged Corinth, the orchestra sweeps through a series of harsh, barbaric chords that sound almost Wagnerian...