Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government," and direct him promptly to the appropriate official. For economy's sake, virtually every member of the Cabinet runs at least two ministries. Premier Pierre Werner, 49, who is also Minister of Finance, is a genial, tireless Christian Socialist who bustles around the country in an ancient official Buick as concernedly as if the Grand Duchy-all 999 square miles of it -were about to melt away altogether...
...short, fat man grunted and puffed as he bore the cross along a mile-and-a-half route. Coming out of the church, the Catenacciu got his huge load stuck in the doorway. Then, as he stumbled along dirt paths and darkened, cobbled streets, struggled painfully up flights of ancient granite stairs, his bare feet began to bleed. Throngs of villagers and 15,000 tourists in Sartene for the occasion gathered along the route to jeer. Three times the Catenacciu fell under his burden, and each time a fellow penitent playing the part of Simon of Cyrene whispered fiercely...
John William Burgon, a 19th century British clergyman and minor poet, wrote a memorable line when he described ancient Petra as "a rose-red city half as old as time." Romantic, inaccessible, it lies in the midst of a vast desert in southern Jordan, and today, as always, its only approach is through a deep, narrow gorge called the Siq, which tradition says was created when Moses struck the rock with his rod. From 300 B.C. to A.D. 100, when Petra flourished as the caravan capital of the Nabataeans, the Siq made the city impregnable, since...
Each weekday morning, a blue U.S. Air Force bus grinds slowly up the hills of Sonnenberg, West Germany, between ancient gabled houses and the ruins of a castle. At the Konrad Duden elementary school, it discharges a noisy load of American grade-school children from nearby Wiesbaden. Minutes later they are answering Frau Hertha Viehweger's questions-in easy, fluent German...
Then came Greene's two traumatic visits to Rome. While there in 1953. Greene struggled almost a year with one large picture, and destroyed it. One day. for the first time, he looked at some ancient mosaics and began to break up his surfaces with flickering brushstrokes hotly hued like autumn leaves. Anatomical outlines melted in fiery new colors and-as if blinded by noon light-Greene began to paint hallucinatory presences peering through masking blue planes. Color began to operate as symbol: orange for passion, blue for infinity. Departure, done in 1961, contains a dismembered, bony elbow reminiscent...