Word: ancient
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...every hallway and a not in every classroom. But it's quite hard to see how the mere presence of a few reefers in a girl's purse or some speed in a a closed locker will prevent old Mr. Walker from waxing eloquent about "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner...
...irresistible sampler. Reading Artemidorus (circa A.D. 150) is like eavesdropping in the imperial marketplace: "Someone dreamt that he had an iron penis. He fathered a son who killed him. For iron is consumed by the rust that it produces from itself." Freud's claim that the ancient Greeks had sensed what he had systematized is borne out by eerie resonances. In Aeschylus' drama, Orestes describes a snake "as though human ... its gaping mouth clutching the breast that once fed me ... it then mingled the sweet milk with curds of blood." John Ruskin has a serpent nightmare: "It rose...
SELLARS STAGES this "classical ruin" in the ancient future, a sparse and sterile set reinforced with projected slides of Renaissance perspective drawings of depth and space. This staging may demonstrate how much can be done with so little, but it appears to be of no other value or contribution to the production. At Harvard, Sellars' use of imaginative economy out of necessity was clever and even provocative, but in the real world it appears cheap, lazy and negligent. Besides, we have seen most of it before in Sellars' past shows. The attempt at surreal miasma falls short of what...
...Colbert may be the world's premier authority on the ancient reptiles. He has devoted more than half a century to tracking down, examining and reconstructing their fossilized remains. His quest has taken him to sites as distant as the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Curator of fossil reptiles and amphibians at New York City's American Museum of Natural History for 35 years, he directed the construction of its famed dinosaur galleries. Though Colbert retired in 1970, he continues to write and lecture, showing a rare gift for bringing to life a long-dead world. Nowhere is this...
...most of this century, Isaac Bashevis Singer has spoken for a great and ancient minority: demons. In his fiction, they install themselves in mirrors to afflict women with vanity, render bridegrooms impotent on wedding nights, knock over Sabbath candles, spill poor men's dinners. "The demons," he says, "represent to me, in a sense, the ways of the world. Instead of saying this is the way things happen, I will say this is the way demons behave...