Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colonels. Some-but not much. The recent relaxation, TIME Correspondent John Shaw reported from Athens, amounts to little more than a sop to the regime's critics. Nearly 2,000 political prisoners are under arrest; last week about 40 of them were suddenly exiled to distant Aegean islands as security risks. Parliament remains shuttered, and parts of the constitution are still suspended. Newspapers are required to censor themselves, and their efforts do not always satisfy the colonels. Last month a military tribunal sentenced the editor and four staff members of the 57-year-old Athens daily Ethnos to prison...
...works in the exhibition does not show direct interrelationships. The large passage from the severe portraits of Colonial America to the abstract color of Hans Hoffman is not illuminated. Yet similar sensibilities toward art appear at unpredictable times. The oldest piece in the show, a Cycladic idol from an Aegean island in the third millennium, B. C., a work of majestic simplicity, resembles the work of Brancusi, a contemporary sculptor, who unfortunately is not in the exhibition...
...thousands of years," she says. Rare as the circular Doric temple may be, an even more valuable treasure remains to be found. It is Praxiteles' bigger-than-life marble statue of the nude Aphrodite, which stood at the center of the temple on a terrace overlooking the Aegean Sea, where it safeguarded passing ships and sailors. The most renowned sculpture in all antiquity, it was judged by Pliny as "equally admirable from every angle," and copies of it were prized by Ptolemy IV of Egypt and Hadrian of Rome. Professor Love thinks that the original may still...