Word: athenas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choruses throughout are well directed, well spoken and graceful. Care has been taken with details in the casting. Appollo and Athena (Joel Martin and Anne D'Harnoncourt) look like gods, towering over the mortals on the stage...
...CLAWSON-Royal-Athena II, 1066 Madison Ave. at 80th St. Clawson mixes nerve with verve in wax-oil-and-casein commentaries on politics, crime, Mom and libido. Not a fig leaf in the show. Through...
...Utah, climbed above the earth's atmosphere and arced to bull's-eye landings in impact areas at the heavily instrumented White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, some 350 miles to the southeast. Later this month, the Air Force will launch the first of some 80 Athena rockets from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, a span of almost 500 miles. The Athenas, toting experimental nose cones are expected to provide valuable data on re-entry problems...
...temple of Artemis that flourished at Vravron. Aristophanes hinted at strange orgies. The rest was a tantalizing mixture of myths and the real civilization of the time. Euripides, in plays, described how Artemis rescued Iphigenia from being sacrificed by her father Agamemnon, and how later, at the behest of Athena, Iphigenia became Artemis' priestess at Vravron. She dwelt near some "holy stairs." and when she died, her grave was adorned "with braided gowns of softest weave" left to the shrine "by women dead with child...
...with this version of the Ajax is not the staging, or the confusion, or the uncomfortable missed entrances; it is that only two members of the cast have sufficient presence to command attention in spite of the Greek they are speaking. One of them, Myra Rubin (who plays both Athena and Tecmessa) even manages to come through because of it, for she has a graceful and compelling sense of metre that in itself expresses the sweet grief that Sophocles wanted to express. Donald Lyons as Menelaus uses a different technique; he swaggers with impressive competence both in voice and manner...