Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HEROIC measures have been taken through the centuries to preserve the art of ancient civilizations, but in some cases the best preservation was disguised as destruction. Swallowed up and believed lost forever when ships carrying them went down, countless Greek statues rested at the bottom of the sea for a couple of millenniums. Now many of them have been fished out, and it is plain that Father Neptune was a first-rate curator. Among others, three bronzes, of a god a philosopher and a youth (opposite), came up looking little the worse for their long immersion, were sent back...
...week's end, withdrawing temporarily from the budget battlefield. Dwight Eisenhower flew to his Gettysburg farm to play host to West Germany's ancient (81) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who stopped off at the farm for an informal chat before proceeding to Washington this week for serious talks on U.S.-German problems...
...proclaiming the man a spy for Israel, dangled from a scaffold in front of Amman's old Roman amphitheater (which survives from the days when Amman's name was Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love). In the public squares of Nablus, Tulkarm and Hebron-cities of that ancient land of Canaan whose milk and honey Moses' twelve spies once surveyed for the children of Israel-three other Guardsmen were hanged at the same hour. All had been convicted as spies last December, accused of having been caught crossing the border with maps and reports of Jordan troop...
...seemed to come straight out of the 18th century. In those days, Sizer once said, "things were done in real style." In his own way he tried to keep that style alive. Few sights were more impressive than that of Theodore Sizer marching majestically across the campus with his ancient blue-black cape billowing out behind...
...status without achieving size. At worst, his is the venom of a reasonably contented rattlesnake. Under pressure, Dixon retreats to the practical joke as readily as Walter Mitty did to the hero-fantasy; when socially and emotionally discomfited, he makes faces-"his Edith Sitwell face," "his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face." At novel's end he tries to articulate his flashes of Angst in the pan during a drunken public lecture: "The point about Merrie England is that it was about the most un-Merrie period in our history. It's only the home-made pottery crowd...