Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy promised that he would pick each federal judge not by "his political party but his qualifications for the office," many welcomed his words as a pledge to scrap the ancient prerogative of the President to salt the federal bench heavily with members of his own party. But Kennedy, once in office, found the temptation politically irresistible. He renominated three Eisenhower candidates for the bench, but of the first 95 appointees picked by his own Administration, there was nary a Republican. Last week, Kennedy finally got around to appointing his first G.O.P. judge: Jesse Ernest...
...most of his plays, the geometric clarity which his nondramatic writing lacks. The structure he imparts to the Orestes myth is philosophic and monumental; the audience is not meant to participate in the passions of the characters, but to analyze them. Sartre uses the classic French methods of adapting ancient myths, and shapes his myth with a grandiose stylization, adding a philosophic dimension to the drama of religious mystery...
...Britain's most distinguished ladies of letters, with some three dozen sharp, perceptive books to her credit. A Dame Commander of the British Empire, she was a witty, brittle bird of a woman who spread panic in the streets with her ancient auto, regularly bicycled down to bathe in London's Serpentine when she was in her 70s, and published a satirical bestseller (The Towers of Trebizond) when...
...rich Etruscan country north of Rome, archaeologists and grave robbers bitterly compete in the search for ancient tombs. But sometimes the grave robber unwittingly becomes the archaeologist's ally. Such a case came to light last week when Rome's Villa Giulia, Italy's main museum of Etruscan artifacts, told the story behind some superb statues it had put on display...
...buried family certainly hewed to Etruscan tradition. Their statues show them dozing or talking or sitting-exactly as they might have been caught in life. And in nearly all the figures, one leg is carefully crossed under the other. It was a poignant bid for immortality, this ancient superstition. For the Etruscans believed that since in life the feet are in motion and are therefore often visible only one at a time, to show both feet at once was to suggest death, final and eternal...