Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suits don't look well on ordinary Russians," conceded Vasily Popkov, chief of the garment industry's Central Clothing Institute, "because they are tailored for Apollo. Our designers conceive of the customer in just two dimensions-height and chest width-and assume that for their other measurements all their customers will be proportioned exactly as Apollo." But far from being Apollos, Russians tend to be short and broad, and if anything getting broader. Moscow University's anthropology department, said Popkov, has just finished a survey which shows that only 43% of all Soviet citizens could...
...heart of Athens' seaport, Piraeus, last week, one of the most important Greek sculptures yet found came to light. Workmen ripping up the pavement found a pair of bronze hands protruding from the dirt four feet below street level. Archaeologists came on the run, uncovered a bronze Apollo, almost perfectly preserved, and worthy of the legendary sculptor Antenor, who lived in the 6th century B.C. The sculpture has much the same severity and grace that mark the bronze Charioteer at Delphi. It is a relic of the greatest moment in Greek art, when the archaic mold, adapted mainly from...
...With the Apollo lay two lesser but still important finds: a bronze Muse from the era of Praxiteles and a fifth century marble column with the head of Hermes. Archaeologists speculate that an exporter may have warehoused the statues for shipment to Imperial Rome some time during the Augustan Age. and then lost track of them. At week's end four new finds were reported, including a bronze shield covered with bas-reliefs. Feverish digging continued. The street may yield more still...
...whatever touched his lips. Before the laughing gods allowed him to rescind his wish, Midas almost died of thirst. As for his taste in music, Midas had the long, pointed ears of an ass, according to the Greeks, because in judging a musical contest he had preferred Pan to Apollo...
...Clumping about his metallic office in his black boots, blowing cigar smoke in the face of his victims, cheaply adjusting theory to exigency and blindly following his vision of the party line-- he is the subject of a thousand Western caricatures. With Sputniks today whizzing about the head of Apollo, it's difficult to accept the proposition that the Soviet Union is administered by men who believe the charm of a piston ring exceeds that of a milk maid, who see challenge only in the mundane decisions of tactics, not in the grand and original plans of strategy...