Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...create new colleges addressed to contemporary problems, then dissolve them when need or interest wanes. The study recommends the creation of five such colleges as soon as possible. One might be devoted to action on urban problems, another to social philosophy, with related courses ranging from the study of ancient myths to existentialism...
Stressing the role of student activism on college campuses, Pusey stated, "In the earlier period, liberating power was discovered in ancient learning. Now it appears to be coming rather from contemporary activity...
...ancient fires for eyes, his head full...
...Irish playwright is frequently the archaeologist of the family of man. When he brings parents and children on stage, fossilized feelings, ancient troubles between man and wife, oedipal conflicts, all are brought to light without mercy...
...something of a stunt when British TV Director Philip Saville went to Denmark's Elsinore Castle to make a television Hamlet, starring Christopher Plummer. Going to Greece to film Oedipus the King in an ancient amphitheater is also a gimmick, but it has paid off better. The stones of the theater at Dodona and the sere Greek hills behind them grandly evoke the atmosphere in which Sophocles himself saw his great tragedy performed. The local peasant faces among the extras give an authenticity to the hoi polloi that makeup men could never have managed...