Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Musica shook the dust off a score of Elizabethan madrigals and lute songs, embellishing the rarefied melodies with a rhythmic liveliness and delicate twining of voices and instruments to produce, in Shakespeare's words, "sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not."-See Music, The Ancient's Mariner...
...Middle Ages, plays in England were sometimes performed from Pageant Waggons, which traveled around the ancient cities stopping at key spots -such as "ye Abbaye gates" and "ye high crosse before ye Mayor"-where the actors would strut and fret their hour upon the unsteady stages...
...society, he declares in this collection of magazine articles, has "a record of private and public shooting, slugging, mayhem, assault, battery, contusions, abrasions, lynching and vigilantism unmatched by any people who come readily to mind, except, perhaps, the ancient Cossacks." With that vision of the violent society in mind, he goes on to argue that the U.S. gives away a little bit more of its "liberty" every time it yields to its fatal impulse to "horn into every war within reach." In fact, says Mayer, after two world wars, both of which he regards as U.S. defeats, "freedom is less...
Todd Drexel's Osric, while dandyish, punctilious and well-oiled, manages for once to avoid being effeminate. Josef Sommer's handling of the First Player's ancient Roman narrative need not, I think, be quite so rhetorical...
...blueprint is as old as the hills, and the ancient hills of Rome at that. But the atrium house is fast becoming the newest thing in suburban housing, and nearly as popular as it was when Romulus was little more than a babe...