Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading archaeologist, Yigael Yadin, was able to fulfill a dream. Pulling strings with Premier Levi Eshkol, he got the army to assign an officer to visit a certain antiquities dealer in Bethlehem.* Under pressure, the dealer opened a hiding place under the floor of his shop and surrendered an ancient, partially worm-eaten scroll...
...world where experience will be created equal tempts us in new ways and offers new dilemmas. These are the New World dilemmas of our next century. Will we be able to continue to enrich our lives with the ancient and durable treasures, to enjoy our in heritance from our nation's founders, while the winds of obsolescence blow about us and while we enjoy the delights of ever wider sharing? Will we be able to share the exploring spirit, reach for the unknown, enjoy the multiplication of our wants, live in a world whose rhetoric is advertising, whose standard...
...ancient China, wood was classified as an element, one of the irreducible components of the universe, along with air, fire, water and earth. It was also an element of society. There, and even more so in Japan, civilized life was inconceivable without wood, which furnished a world of artifacts, from the largest temple to the smallest lacquered...
Astonish me! Those two words should be inscribed over every playwright's desk. At the birth of drama, the ancient Greeks bodied forth the outrageous image of a man murdering his fa ther and marrying his mother. Doubtless, no one in the Athenian audience had performed those acts, but then, he or she had not come to the theater to see the people next door...
...ancient Romans kept geese on their Capitoline hill to cackle alarm in the event of attack by night. For modern Americans, fire is nighttime's most dreaded foe?yet relatively few households are equipped with smoke detectors, the contemporary early-warning birds...