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...Athenian Sculpture of the Later Archaic Period," Professor Chase, Fogg Museum...
...follies of democracy are universally admitted, and there is nothing new to be said about them". Such are the words which Thucydides put in the mouth of Alcibiades some 400 years before the Christiamera. And yet it would seem that in this case the Athenian historian was wrong and that there is something new to be said about the virtues and the vices of what has been called the most glorious of political fallacies; for tomorrow night at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall, two modern philosophers will debate on whether democracy is or is not a failure...
History. In 1800, the Earl of Elgin set forth to make drawings, models, paintings of the Athenian ruins which testify to the immortality of Periclean Greece and the work of Phidias. Greece then was under Ottoman dominion. Being a Christian, Lord Elgin found himself obstructed at every turn. His artist companions were forbidden approach to the ruins, let alone entrance. Later Great Britain's arms prevailed over France, and Egypt (hitherto under French dominion) was dealt to Turkey. So enthusiastic waxed the Ottomans over this token of good will, that Lord Elgin was told to go ahead and make...
...Aged Paul Koundouriotis, Provisional President of Greece, '72, suddenly ordered out a Greek naval plane, at Phaleron (Athenian naval base) last week, stepped into the ship as passenger and flew for the first time in his life. Destination: the Island of Hydra, 50 miles distant, where His Excellency was born...
...Besides, after this speech I propose to place upon my tongue not the usual Athenian bull, but a couple of oxen, and I shall not speak again till next year...