Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...architecture of Yale University has long been an enormous clutter of poorly integrated styles and hideous imitations, where Gothic halls are topped by Georgian towers, smoke-stacks disguised as medieval spires, and streets lined with Greek, Italian, Byzantine, and ancient Egyptian fakery. In recent years, however, Yale has begun what its enthusiasts consider a revolution in college building...
Until Steele Commager's The Odes of Horace is published next week, it will still be possible to say that the best work on Horace is Reuben Brower's study of Alexander Pope's ancient models. Commager is the first classical scholar to attempt a close reading of the odes along modern lines, and he has succeeded brilliantly. (I omit from consideration Collinge's turgid and mechanical new book on structure in the odes...
...response was quick and virulent. Warsaw's Zycie Warszawy, in a rare personal attack on the cardinal, charged him with deliberately seeking to provoke an "atmosphere of persecution and martyrdom." Last week Cardinal Wyszynski hit back. He journeyed to the ancient western Polish city of Gniezno on a pilgrimage in honor of Poland's first patron saint. St. Adalbert.* Though city officials barred the procession from its traditional route through the center of town because of "traffic problems." 8.000 hymn-singing worshipers solemnly marched in a cold drizzle to an open-air Mass before the 980-year...
...said of Zeuxis, the great artist of ancient Greece, that he could paint a bunch of grapes so realistically that birds would try to eat them. This was an impressive skill, but art has long since aspired to more than carbpn-copy realism...
...viewer's eye is caught up by the deceptively simple forms only to find itself staring into an endless beyond, as it once was made to clamber over Braque's intricate geometric planes. Whether he intended to or not. Braque has restored to the bird its ancient role as messenger of the spirit and bearer of the soul. "In art." says Braque, "there is a mystery present. One must respect the mystery. When one thinks he has plumbed it, he has only deepened...