Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the past half century Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, has built up an extraordinary reputation as one of the most active centers of ancient Greek study in the country. The prime stimulus was Miss Mabel Whiteside, who functioned as a local Thalia, Melpomene and Terpsichore rolled into one. She and her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty...
...completed movie, its blemishes notwith-standing, emerged as an impressive artistic accomplishment and a lasting tribute to Miss White-side's 50 years of inspiring zeal and unflagging dedication. And the film is evidence that, in one place at least, the ancient Greek language, far from being dead, is not even moribund...
Since the cast of fifty included Randolph-Macon students only, the male roles were all played by women. But after all this simply reversed the ancient practice, which allowed all-make casts only. A few of the big rotes could have stood better but that is no reason to advocate a style of writing acting; yet Jeannette Hume had a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about...
...times are changing. Last week a Moslem religious court convicted Ahmed el Osamy, a 60-year-old government worker who ran one of San'a's top boydellos, of being a practicing pederast, and sentenced him to death. Under an ancient Yemeni law, the execution should have been carried out by throwing him from "the highest place"-presumably the minaret of a mosque-but the judges allowed Osamy to be shot instead. "They thought of throwing him from a plane," explained Minister of Education Mohammed el Khalidy, "but that's expensive...
...ancient kings who did their days in stone...