Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...messy memories. Hints that vaguely suggest why the hell I'm here. On the third floor of Moors Hall, staring out at the garbage men and the cold sun moving across the morning. In other times there have been mornings on marble islands with a dive in the Aegean to wake me up. Mornings in Spanish fishing villages and on hot Nevada hilltops. There have been mornings with a woman which turned magically into afternoons-mornings that did kindly battle with the cynical didactic of the "Harvard Experience...
...breast or to an altar; a triangle to a pyramid or a bird's spread wings. With its vertical masts and calm progression of red, sail-like forms, Odyssey, one of the monumental sculptures at Hammarskjold Plaza, suggests an archaic flotilla dipping through the Aegean. Sometimes a sculpture will work not as an object but as a kinetic metaphor of force. Ascent includes a blade of red steel that surges from the ground and appears to crush a cylinder until it is halted and returned to balance by the serene oblong that blocks its path. Even in the most...
Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos and his wife Eugenie were having late dinner in their home on the heavily wooded islet of Spetsopoula, which sits in the Aegean, 56 helicopter miles from Athens. During dinner, Niarchos placed a telephone call to Charlotte Ford in Paris. He was wed briefly to Charlotte in 1965 before returning to Eugenie, his wife of 22 years who had borne him four children. Niarchos wanted Charlotte to send their four-year-old daughter, Elena, to Spetsopoula for a visit, as she had done the year before. After some discussion, Charlotte agreed, and there is some speculation...
...life. Gently lapping breakers touch the shore, and on the far horizon is a lone ship. On a small patch of beach a gull inspects some flotsam. The ocean is the Atlantic, but it could just as easily be the Indian, the Pacific, or Homer's wine-dark Aegean...
...accusing Tantini and Ballarini of bearing false witness and failing to report a misdemeanor. All that happened back in 1952. Last week, when an examining magistrate declared the case null and void because the statute of limitations had run out, not one "Che hello!" of triumph issued from the Aegean hideaway where Callas is vacationing with Film Maker Pier Paolo Pasolini...