Word: athenas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever happens without fanfare or publicity when Actress Melina Mercouri gets involved. The Greek star, relieved of her citizenship and property because of her criticism of Greece's military junta, learned that the royal couple planned to lunch with Secretary-General U Thant. Planting herself like an avenging Athena in front of the TV cameras outside the U.N. entrance, Melina began reading a long list of rhetorical questions calling for democratic elections in Greece, etc., etc. Constantine and Anne-Marie made it inside to their luncheon without hav ing Melina's open letter thrust upon them...
...Stockholm's National Museum currently shows, Christina amassed both the wondrous and the weird of her time (opposite page). Some of it has been destroyed or lost, but the reassembled wealth of her collection fills 36 rooms, a tribute to the woman hailed in her lifetime as the Athena of the North...
...bright a blonde to play dumb. Somewhat more at home with his role-a poet with a sex life as breezy as James Bond's-is Sean Connery, who displays some proof of his versatility by shouting a lot. While earning a buck on the payroll of Athena Carpet Cleaners, Connery seduces a private secretary in a private office that slowly fills up with suds. Sent away to a mental rest camp where Lady Psychiatrist Colleen Dewhurst spoils him with massage, he reaps greater benefits from hydrotherapy by coaxing Dr. O'Neal's neglected wife (Jean Seberg...
Again by accident, a farmer digging in his vineyard unearthed the tops of several large fluted columns. Archaeologist Haralambos Makaronas, head of the Pella dig, believes the columns belong to the 5th century B.C. temple dedicated to Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, of which Roman Historian Livy speaks...
...Michigan and Manhattan. Its current production of Shaw's Man and Superman is exquisitely performed, brilliantly thought out, and acted with a thoroughgoing ensemble spirit. A.P.A. took five years to reach its present perfection; Lincoln Center apparently expected its own repertory company to rise full-grown like Athena from the brow of Zeus...