Word: attica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attica, the softer charms of the nymph who plays the nymph...
...result has proved a tremendous success. The brilliant sunlight of Attica and classical background give such modern works as Matisse's Head of Jeannette an air of repose and permanence. Andre Derain's Girl with Long Hair has gained a depth of dimension it never had in France's Chardin Gallery, and the razor-sharp shadows endow Henry Moore's prowlike Standing Figure with a new monumentality. As for Renoir's Venus Triumphant, with her well-rounded grace she looked ready for installation above it all in the Parthenon itself...
Tidy & Tiny. The short lines bear such quaint names as the Arcade & Attica, the Belfast & Moosehead Lake, the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington and the Tweetsie. Most of them are operated by small businessmen for whom railroading is still a shirtsleeve job and the romance of the rails a pleasant bonus. But apart from a handful, like North Carolina's Tweetsie, and the Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas, which have made their puffing steam locomotives colorful and profitable tourist attractions, romance is not what the short lines are run for. Says an Interstate Commerce Commission official: "There's money...
...pool, listening to the sounds made by bodies breaking water: "Cecrops! Inachus!" Perfectly good sounds, both of them; one can hear the upper body cutting through, then perhaps the legs flopping and hitting the surface: "Cecrops!" But the sounds are the names, respectively, of the first king of Attica and that of a river god who became first king of Argos...
...Cacoyannis (Stella) has attempted an adaptation of Euripides' Electra. Up to a point, the attempt excitingly succeeds. The performers, most notably Irene Papas, who interprets Electra, move with the dignity of figures in a ritual, speak with a largeness suggesting incantation. And the settings-a bucolic vale in Attica, the rude stump of the great palace at Mycenae-breathe a legendary grandeur...