Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed to be an exhibition of capitalism at work, a marketplace near the ancient city of Xian where farmers and other vendors conduct business free of state control. It was in fact a contrivance, a Potemkin-like set where the customers were programmed not to begin buying until after the President and Mrs. Reagan arrived, and to cease as soon as their motorcade departed...
...Greeks protested the "unholy exploitation" of the Olympic flame. The International Olympic Committee actually owns the flame, but the Greeks are its guardians. "The flame for us is a sacred thing. It is not for sale," declared Spyros Foteinos, mayor of Olympia, where the ancient Games were first held...
...Sandinistas can quickly move their 20,000 troops and supplies to any point in the area. My companions are equipped by the U.S. from Honduras, but they grumble that they had to carry the arms and supplies across the border on their backs. The F.D.N.'s single, ancient C-47 transport plane cannot be used in Nueva Segovia because of heavy Sandinista defenses...
...that wasn't always the case Ancient Greek tragedy portrayed the definitive screw-up. There's no way you can argue that Oedipus, the father of screwing up if you're a Freudian, was responsible for what happened to him. The oracle said he would sleep with his mother and kill his father, so he did what any sensible person would do. He left town. Then he pushed that limit, took those risks, to become king. And Fate tripped him up. Just like Newman and Redford, or those test pilots who crash in flames early on in The Right Staff...
...says there is "an instinct for places" and "the genius of the artist who is capable of using the parochial to illuminate the human condition." In excerpts from his poems we see the ruined abbey of Corcomroe in County Clare and, later, the forbidding Norman tower in Galway: "An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower" which Yeats made his summer house. And in "Reveries over Childhood and Youth." Yeats reminisces about Lissadell House, the home of a favourite Anglo-Irish family...