Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS, by Theodore H. White. A fine political journalist turns to ancient history for an engaging study of "the way men use other men to reach their goals...
Monday, April 15 THE UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Search in the Deep." The oceanauts of the Calypso journey to the Island of Europa in the Mozambique Channel, foremost breeding ground of giant green sea turtles, those mysterious and ancient armored behe moths that sometimes grow to 800 Ibs. and the span of two arms' lengths across their shells...
...recognition by theologians that all formulas of faith are man's frail and imperfect vessels for carrying God's truth, and are forever in need of reformulation. In the light of Christianity's need to respond to the human needs of the earth, many of these ancient formulas hardly seem worth rethinking. "The central axis of religious concern," notes Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "has shifted from matters of ultimate 'salvation,' and of heaven or hell, to questions of the meaning, necessity, or usefulness of religion for this life." In other...
Just's detached and determinedly accurate assessment belongs to a tradition of war reporting that traces back to Thucydides, the ancient historian whose account of the Peloponnesian War is depressingly relevant today. Thucydides was no polemicist either, but his message was clear: the exercise of power, however necessary it may seem, can lead a city-state-or a nation-into unforeseen danger...
...terrified by demons, people whom he sees and fears. One is a homosexual, another a 216-year-old woman who keeps threatening to take off her hat-and her face. Gradually infected with her husband's aberrations, Ullman looks up from her yard one day and sees the ancient crone. Soon the artist and his wife are invited to a haunted castle where the Draculalike Baron von Merkens, who owns the island, presides over assorted evil spirits -a sadist, an effeminate embezzler, and Von Sydow's naked ex-mistress (Ingrid Thulin), who seduces him, then ridicules him before...