Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intellectual Wilderness." Dulles scribbled heavily at his doodle pad, his face beet-red, and Rhode Island's ancient (89) Theodore Francis Green suggested impatiently that Bill Fulbright was going far beyond the senatorial province of asking questions. Later Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey took up the Fulbright cause...
...character to all children born during rainstorms. In Monaco's pink-walled palace, Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, 8 lbs. 3 oz., uttered her first wail, set off a chain reaction including a radio broadcast by her nervous father, Prince Rainier III, 33, a 21-gun salute from two ancient cannon, harbor whistles, bonfires, street dancing and a torrent of free champagne. No longer would Monacans worry that Rainier would die without an heir, a catastrophe that might have eventually subjected them to France's high taxes and military draft as the prizes of a French annexation. After...
...Russian paintings, which are housed in other Leningrad museums. But three of its six departments display only Russian objects ranging from Stone-Age relics to 20th century silverware. Under heavy guard in a basement vault is the Hermitage's prize display: a dazzling collection of Scythian and ancient Greek gold objects that may well be the finest in the world...
...have one prediction for the spring term, however, which must be expressed: President Nasser will seize the Ibis on the basis of ancient Egyption right
Till We Have Faces twists the ancient Psyche myth into strange new shapes. The action takes place in the barbaric Kingdom of Glome, somewhere north of civilized ancient Greece. The central figures are the beauteous Princess Psyche, a symbol of sacred love, and her ugly sister Orual, a symbol of profane love. By contrast, their Greek slave tutor, Lysias the Fox, is a symbol of the rational, worldly skeptic of all ages. The Fox tells the princesses that their country's religion, which revolves around a shapeless stone earth-mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies...