Word: ancients
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Things That Never Were. There remained the final searing day, the day of formal farewell amid all the ancient panoply of Roman Catholic ceremony and all the contemporary irony of American politics. There was Cardinal Cushing in his purple, his rumbly intonation evoking yet another memory of that earlier funeral. There was the President, who started his oresidency by giving condolences to the Kennedys and now, near the end of his power, came to mourn the man who had helped shorten the Johnsonian reign. There were the men pausing in their pursuit of succession: Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon, Hubert...
President Pusey cited the Shah of Iran as "A twentieth century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...
Ford has reportedly turned down the presidency of prestigious universities in the past, and there is no reason to think he will leave. Harvard for another administrative job. Ford's recent appointment to the McLean Chair in Ancient and Modern History deeply moved him. It is Harvard's oldest and most prestigious history chair and was formerly held by Crane Brinton, Ford's Ph.D. advisor in the late...
Such pessimists ignore conciliation: an ancient art that has served mankind through centuries of quarrelsome existence. To be sure, attempts at conciliation are often futile until the combatants reach exhaustion. Henry Clay's compromises merely delayed the Civil War that Abraham Lincoln had to win before the Union could be restored. It is not the United Nations that prevents World War III but the balance of nuclear terror...
...description delights the man who directed the display. Robert J. Braidwood, 60, is an old hand at upsetting his fellow archaeologists. By using modern aerial photographs to give an astronaut's eye view of the ancient world, and placing ancient artifacts in a contemporary setting, the field director of the University of Chicago's "Prehistoric Project" contrives to add unexpected drama to the simple relics he has found in two decades of digging in the hills of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. Scorning what he calls the gravedigger school of archaeology, Braidwood says: "I've never had much...