Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people's freedom. They thus embody the continuity and unity that is lacking in so much of modern life. Shorn now of the military ambitions and political self-seeking that made so many of them the scourge of the world, they seem to be reverting to their ancient magical role...
...emblem, which was the gift of Sigismund Augustus in 1565, with its silver cock resplendent in royal crown and symbolically attached by a chain to its perch. Poland has been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient traditions are preserved in its art. In fact the shooting fraternity of Cracow still exists. Each year they parade with a replica of their royal bird to their ritual gunnery...
Secular Support. Though it will be weeks before meaningful sales figures are in, U.S. Catholics seem as inclined toward fishless Fridays as their Canadian neighbors. In Manhattan an Ancient Order of Hibernians group celebrated the new regimen over platters of roast beef at an East Side pub. Jesuit-run Boston College is adding meat to its Friday menu. Across the Charles River in Cambridge, fish got a secular show of support: the Harvard Food Services office decided to keep fish on Friday, reasoning that it is "as good...
...washed by the Mediterranean, with their groves of white columns, deserted temples, amphitheaters, markets and wheel-rutted streets. The Roman Empire in Africa stretched from Alexandria on the border of Egypt across to Tangier on the Strait of Gibraltar; its remarkably preserved ruins give the best picture of the Ancient World available today...
ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS IN COLOR by Bodo Cichy. 424 pages. Viking. $25. About five pounds of information on ancient cultures in Mesopotamia and Yucatán, Crete and Etruria. Again, the color plates are beautifully done, while the architecture-megaliths, city gates, temples, pyramids, ziggurats-again convinces that art is long...