Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plains and fertile valleys; in the south, the snow-capped Atlas Mountains soar 14,000 ft. above arid desert. Its cities range from modern Casablanca (pop. 700,000) with its bustling port and gleaming white apartment buildings, to the walled Arab city of Fez (pop. 180,000) with its ancient university buildings and its twisting casbah streets too narrow for automobiles, to the sprawling desert town of Marrakech (pop. 215,000) where ragged Berbers bring their camels to market, and snake charmers pitch their brown tents in the city square...
Playing the part in broad style, Virginia's Democratic Governor Thomas B. Stanley dolled himself up in a plumed Elizabethan helmet, brandished a replica of an ancient musket, appeared ready to defend the ramparts against all attackers. Actually, he was merely lending his gubernatorial presence to ceremonies opening a historical festival in the 350-year-old settlement of Jamestown...
...that the End of Days was near. The tiny Jewish nation was torn and chivvied by powerful neighbors-first Egypt and Syria, later Rome. In the wake of Alexander the Great, the world outside Israel was dominated by Greek ways and Greek ideas, and many Jews were abandoning the ancient paths of their fathers for the new Hellenic mode. According to a widely held theory, the Essenes left Jerusalem in protest against such corruption of the ancient Jewish faith, and because of some unidentified act of persecution, withdrew into the desert to await...
...family engaged in making priests' robes, Tessai was apprenticed in pottery-making, was encouraged in his scholarly interests as a youth by Rengetsu, a Buddhist nun famed for her verse. But from then on, Tessai was largely self-taught, spent the rest of his life carrying out the ancient Chinese precept: "Read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles." Though Tessai traveled extensively throughout Japan-including a visit to the Hairy Ainus in Hokkaido (Tessai sketched them humorously, looking like prime candidates for Cartoonist Al Capp's Lower Slobbovia)-and did drawings and maps for the government...
...book is born; a classic is forever reborn. Each generation supplies its own Pygmalions-men with the love and skill to breathe new life into the literary monuments of the past. As Pygmalions to the ancient Roman poets, two lifelong classics scholars and teachers, Gilbert Highet (Columbia) and Rolfe Humphries (now a lecturer at New York City's Hunter College after 32 years at Long Island's Woodmere Academy), have love and skill to spare. Poet Humphries renders Ovid's famed, amoral The Art of Love in its most readable translation since Dryden's, including...