Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story "Young Man of Piraeus" [March 30], you describe a final step: "Molten bronze poured between the two clay surfaces melted the wax and replaced it, forming a hollow statue of bronze filled with irremovable clay." The wax, in any "lost wax" process, cast today as well as in ancient times, always has to be burned out of the mold before the bronze can be poured...
Pocket Money. Last week the army split broke out into the open. Commander in Chief General Abdel Karim Zahreddin, a middle-of-the-roader, tried to get the two factions together in the middle-of-the-road town of Horns. Up from ancient Damascus came the conservative, high-ranking officers who supported General Zahreddin; down from Aleppo in the north came hotheaded, pro-Nasser junior officers of Colonel Louis Atassi. After a nightlong acrimonious debate, the officers emerged smiling into the daylight to announce complete agreement...
...city where civilization first fashioned an international rule of law, a small group of lawyers and jurists last week sought to write new laws for an age that seeks that ancient and still distant goal: world peace. The Rome meeting was called the European Conference of World Peace Through the Rule of Law, and was the fourth and final "continental" gathering (the others were held in Costa Rica, Japan and Nigeria) in preparation for a worldwide rule of law conference planned for New Delhi next year...
...Plop fall the plums." Plums fall very rarely in television, but last week-with that line from an ancient Chinese poem-a major plum indeed was offered on New York's independent WNEW-TV and Washington, D.C.'s WTTG-TV. British Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and his wife, Actress Joy Parker, read poetry for an hour, ranging from Shelley's Ozymandias to T. S. Eliot's Family Reunion, and from Lord Byron's Don Juan to D. H. Lawrence's Bats...
...Treasure Trove. Being New Yorkers, they are also self-consciously tastemakers. Where money is no object, the lady of the house can call on the nation's most expensively enterprising decorators, who in turn have at hand a huge treasure trove of materials, antiques, furniture ancient and modern in Manhattan's syth...