Word: agamemnon
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Belligerents: A league of Greek feudalities, led by Agamemnon of Mycenae ("King of Men"), v. the Trojans and their allies, led by Priam and.his 50 sons...
...action to the thought, yeasty, 72-year-old Elsa went to work, talked Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos into the loan of the new liner Achilleus, and assembled a likely guest list. The Queen of the Hellenes, who herself went cruising last year on the Achilleus' sister ship Agamemnon (TIME. Sept. 13, 1954), was not invited. "I decided not to have any Greeks," said Elsa. "because there's no point in taking coals to Newcastle, and we wanted people who would spend money, which meant no royalty, since royalty, alas, has no money...
...October of 1953 the group used Agassiz to produce two plays by Archibald MacLeish, and in February used Sanders Theatre to read William Alfred's Agamemnon. Later that year verse-plays by Yeats were produced in the Fogg Court. The Poets waived the by-law which requires an author to be present when his work is being considered for production. "He was not exactly a member, but the pieces were excellent," Miss Huntington explained...
Poetrywise, Audience has contained works by Donald Hall, Byron Vazakas, John Hollander, and Edward Honig. The second issue printed a previously unpublished scene from William Alfred's Agamemnon in the same modern idiom which characterizes the reworking of the play as it recently appeared. The most remarkable of the single poems, to my mind, is Honig's Snowbird Blues, in which his jerky rhythm and unusual images create a bizarre and troubling effect...
Last week when the Agamemnon docked at Naples once again at the cruise's end. it was generally agreed that the trip had been a huge success, and as Don Juan, pretender to the throne of Spain, put it, a bit forlornly, "a fine chance for the children to get to know each other...