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Traced to its Greek foundations, the word architect comes from archi (chief) and tekton (builder). In the case of Catalan "chief builder" Antoni Gaudí, the derivation seems prosaic. For Gaudí, the word breaks easily into the three trademarks of his architecture: arches, technical brilliance and sureness, this last quality sometimes degenerating into rudeness and arrogance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaudí Mania | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...near Bangi. "Some raised their hands, but others had guns, and they killed several of our soldiers," said General Pir Mohammed Khaksar, a front-line Alliance commander from Taloqan. There were also reports that three Arabs had pretended to surrender to Alliance troops in the town of Dasht-i-Archi in the north of Kunduz province. When Alliance soldiers approached them to take their weapons, the Arabs detonated the bombs strapped to their bodies, killing themselves and five Alliance soldiers. Like other Alliance generals, Khaksar has now ordered his men not to take any chances with the so-called Arab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: A Volatile State Of Siege After a Taliban Ambush | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...such theoretical links depend upon transliterations and translations from the tablets themselves, and here the disputes give ample reason for caution. In the hybrid Eblaite language, a single sign can have a dozen meanings. Indeed, Alfonso Archi of the University of Rome, now the Ebla epigrapher, accuses both Pettinato and Dahood of distorting Eblaite religion by mistranslations. Harvard's Frank Cross, an authority on the Old Testament, believes that solid application of the Ebla findings remains a generation or two away. The majority of scholars concur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Grounding for the Bible? | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...From the Greek archi and iatros, or "first physician," a title given to court physicians by both the ancient Greeks and Romans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pope, Press & Archiater | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...painting of Dillinger's death and sketches of the Jelke trial for LIFE, For some of his best material he went to the Bowery ("You can't find any thing better to draw") and burlesque houses ("Extremely pictorial. You get a woman in the spotlight, the gilt archi tecture of the place, plenty of human ity"). Coney Island fascinated him: "Crowds of people in all directions, in all positions, without clothing, moving - like the great compositions of Michelangelo and Rubens. I failed to find anything like it in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Portrait | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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