Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mason Hammond is the stalwart professor of "Gladiators," as his winter course in Roman History is known. He has got a fascinating subject in "The City in the Ancient World," and he is reputed to be even more delighted in a seminar-type course than he is on the podium. This course, by the way, should not be overly rugged...
...books to the proposition that, in their potential, all men are intellectually equal. They have probably been equal for something like 1,000,000 years-a bridge of time that carries the world back to the Pleistocene Age and the rude beginnings of social life. It was then that ancient ancestors of modern man equipped themselves with the first language and the first culture and, in so doing, set a pattern that has been followed ever since...
...whose classical sitar playing has been so enthusiastically applauded and imitated in the U.S. jazz and pop world that he has opened a school for Indian music in Los Angeles, had an entire concert to himself. A capacity audience sat breathlessly silent during his hypnotic droning and twanging of ancient ragas, then leaped to its feet at the end to give him one of the biggest ovations of the festival...
Bhumibol Adulyadej, LL.D., King of Thailand. Defender of an ancient faith in a culture of incredible grace and color...
...countries may be established through a combination of immigration and revolution, as in the U.S. and Latin America, where settlers cut loose from their colonial masters. The process may also occur through a kind of rebirth-a deliberate revival of an ancient state or civilization in a new form, often but not always accompanied by revolutionary war. Modern Greece fought for its independence from the Ottoman empire partly in the name of its ancient, glorious incarnation, and modern Germany struggled for national unity remembering its identity under the Holy Roman Empire...