Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somebody does: 50 Stanford men, aged 17 to 22, now occupy the huge mansion's west wing, and 30 Stanford coeds live in the east wing. For the next six months, they will study in the stately building, little changed from its ancient beginnings as an English country house except for the ceiling nudes, chastely painted over by the Jesuits who leased the building to Stanford. The students will play croquet on the well-trimmed lawns, shoot arrows in the gardens, ride to hounds with adjacent estate owners. Harlaxton Man or is the newest of Stanford's five...
...uproar in Strasbourg exemplified a problem that has plagued French parents since 1803, when the Napoleon government decreed that all Gaul's children must be named after Catholic saints. In 1813, the law was liberalized to include names of other "persons known in ancient history," but it has stood unchanged since, and today, though Charles de Gaulle exhorts his countrymen to "marry our century," French offspring may be christened Luc, Cléopâtre or Nabuchodonosor but not Lyndon, Elke or Nasution...
...Thus hardly a week passes without some irate couple's suing to force registration of an appellation. Last spring an employee of the French atomic-energy commission won the right to name his daughter Marjorie, but only after an appeals court in Grenoble ruled that Marjorie was an ancient French nickname for Marguerite-explaining that it is found in England only because it was exported there from France in 1194. A father in Normandy wanted to call his daughter Kelig, which he claimed was a perfectly good Breton name. Not so, ruled the Ministry of Justice, which imposed...
Undercover Parks. The geometry of ancient Greece rules this elevated plane. Four roofless exedrae, or terraced pits, provide outdoor spots for plays, lectures, flirting, and even small protest meetings. Piercing the center is one of modern architecture's most unusual staircases: an amphitheater that descends to 21 classrooms below the flying court. The platform level gives second-story entrances to the library, laboratories and student-union building (which houses barbershops, bowling alley and rifle range...
Racing against the day when the Aswan Dam will submerge a 250-mile section of the Nile Valley, University of Chicago archaeologists recently unearthed a major manuscript discovery. Dug from the ruins of a 10th century Christian monastery on the Egyptian-Sudanese border, their find is an ancient Coptic prayer book containing a hymn to the Cross recited by Jesus before the Crucifixion and a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Christ and his disciples after the Resurrection...