Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...department now believes elementary humanities courses required under the general education program can replace the study of Shakespeare and the Bible in the second term of the sophomore year, Bate said. Assignments with both literary and historical applications will replace these works and the specialized contrast between one ancient and one modern historical study in the junior year...
...downhill ski champion, Maria-Grazia Marchelli, fresh from a plaster cast, whipped down a Tofana slope at 50 m.p.h.; she wound up back on the sidelines with a torn knee ligament. In a sense, the accidents were inevitable. The traditional contests, with which the games began in ancient Greece, strain muscle and mind, but rarely endanger life. Only since the Olympics moved to the mountains have they acquired a real element of danger...
...China has cast off all pretense that it sets much value on extending universal education or preserving the country's cultural heritage. Ancient operas have been rewritten along Marxist lines; the nation's scholars are being silenced. The government's main objective now is to turn out 60,000 to 70,000 technical specialists a year. "China's intellectuals," reports French Correspondent Robert Guillian of Le Monde, just returned from China, "are frightened and subservient, half scared out of their wits. They are men in a deep malaise...
...note that the faces of the girls change, but the figures seem to stay the same. In Folies-Bergère (219 pp.; Button; $3.95), Paul Derval, director and titular head of the theater for almost 50 years, tells the naked truth in unadorned prose about Paris' most ancient music hall. It is the first time the story has been told at length in English...
...baby's first smiles, unsmiling pediatricians insist, are merely mechanical preludes to burps. Similarly solemn reasoning has led many critics to assume that the smiles which characteristically wreathe the best of ancient sculpture were put there by artists who did not know how to carve a straight face. This assumption was being thoroughly discredited last week at the Birmingham Museum of Art. "The Archaic Smile," a show assembled by Museum Director Richard Howard, features dozens of works as controlled and haunting as the examples opposite...