Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...translator in the weeks ahead, Dr. Brothers will discuss why men get tattooed ("an ancient symbol of manliness, used by masculine men as an amulet, or by feminine men to attract attention"), why people are late ("rebellion against authority"), why some wives are extravagant ("She really wants to be refused; she's a masochist"). Not among the questions so far: why women become psychologists...
...growers launched their campaign without even consulting Dr. Ugai. Said one merchant: "Favored from ancient times, tea now stands the test of the atomic age as a safeguard against one of the most dreaded byproducts of that age." But one thing was missing: evidence that what works in laboratory mice will work equally well...
Ever since the wily Ulysses ruled both islands, it has been said that the smartest of all Greeks come from neighboring Ithaca and Cephalonia. Last week one of the smartest and pertest daughters of Ulysses' ancient offshore island of Cephalonia was busily masterminding a top-to-bottom reorganization of the Greek public school system so basic as to change norms laid down by Plato and Aristotle themselves. "In ancient Greece," said Dr. Kalliniki Dendrinou Antonakaki last week, as Parliament debated implementation of her newly adopted Educational Reform Act, "education taught only the pursuit of the esthetic ideals of truth...
...empire. Nubian slaves, lions for the Roman arenas, ivory and African gold flowed through Leptis Magna into the civilized world, until the harbor silted up. Marauding Vandals sacked the city. Then, in A.D. 523 Berber raiders depopulated it. Sand crept in and swelled through the streets,, clogged the ancient irrigation system. By the 11th century Leptis Magna was utterly buried, forgotten...
...Harvard's distinguished historians will teach courses on television this Fall. Robert C. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, will offer "European Imperialism," while Crane Brinton '19, McClean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will give "The Anatomy of Revolution...