Word: ancient
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...Mall in Albany, N.Y., demonstrates just how well ancient traditions can still serve architecture if the will (and the cash) is forthcoming. Architect Wallace K. Harrison, looking for a way to animate the plaza in designing the huge $1 billion-plus complex, went back to the idea of reflecting pools. And what reflecting pools they are! The largest is six hundred feet long and it sits in a park atop garages and a shopping mall. In winter part of it is frozen for skaters. Says Harrison: "It changes the feeling of the whole city of Albany...
According to folk wisdom in many cultures, redheaded people tend to be a bit temperamental. An Israeli researcher believes there may be something to the ancient prejudice. At the Honolulu conference, Psychiatrist Michael Bar, of Israel's Shalvata Psychiatric Center, reported a study showing that redheaded children are three or four times more likely than others to develop "hyperactive syndrome" -whose symptoms include overexcitability, short attention span, quick feelings of frustration and, usually, excessive aggressiveness...
Agatha Christie said that if she had ever imagined, as a young woman, that she would spend 50 years writing thrillers, she would never have made Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple so old. Perhaps, but several of the elderly detectives prove to be the hardiest. The latest ancient to carry a series on his frail back is an Amsterdam police commissioner, or commissaris. He wears waistcoats and a watch chain; he has rheumatism, unfailing gaiety and humor, but no name. The Japanese Corpse is the fifth mystery he has appeared in, and he gives every promise of providing an annuity...
Indeed, there is probably a little of him in the wise commissaris. Practical Hollander though he is, the old fellow reminds one of the ancient Chinese in Yeats who stare on "all the tragic scene...
Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,/ Their ancient, glittering eyes...