Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flabby, 45-year-old Farouk symbolized the gross results of a classically misspent life. Last week he died as he had lived - gorging himself on fine food with a willowy blonde at his side. The end came in Rome's Ile de France restaurant on the ancient Aurelian Way near Vatican City. Accompanied by blonde Anna Maria Gatti, 28, Farouk dined at midnight on oysters, roast lamb, cake and fruit. At 1:30 in the morning, as he enjoyed a postprandial cigar, Farouk said he felt faint, clutched at his throat and fell forward on the table. An ambulance...
...says that 55 is too old for an athlete? Anyone lucky enough to find a seat at yesterday's squash exhibition will swear that ancient Hashim Khan is far from over the hill...
...Brave, and the Land of the Free, of the New Deal, of the Fair Deal, of the New Frontier, and of the Great Society can have no respect for the inscrutable, childish, feebleminded, sloganmongering land of the Great Leap Forward and of the Hundred Flowers, with its already ancient culture...
...must be an important figure in Barry Forman's new play, The Chambers, which opened at the Ex Saturday night; a Harvard law student named Robert Wake interrupts his return from France just to stop at Chambers' vast ancient house and talk with the famous professor. But Wake is entangled by Chambers' strange family and finds himself slipping farther and farther away from the interview he desires. Chambers never appears, and Wake finally loses his way in the labyrinthine corridors of the decaying mansion, unable to escape...
...Caress the Curple. The man who has presided over the Met for nearly a decade works tucked away in a tapestry-lined office on a floor between ancient Etruscan pottery, above, and Greco-Roman statuary, below. Son of a Cleveland interior designer, Rorimer has been at home at the Met ever since his 1927 graduation from Harvard. A fervent medievalist and devotee of the decorative arts, he named his children Louis and Anne after the late 15th century French monarchs, Louis XII and Anne of Brittany, whose marriage was celebrated by the weaving of the Unicorn tapestries, which Rorimer acquired...