Word: atticus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Davies, who for two years wrote the "Atticus" feature in the London Sunday Times, is the perfect prototype of the modern hagiographer: a onetime gossip columnist with a novelist's background (Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush). With the help of his subjects, who are getting a cut of the royalties, he offers the largest selection of spicy morsels yet compiled on the Beatles. For example, here is Paul McCartney on sex: "I got it for the first time at 15. I suppose that was a bit early. I was about the first in my class." Or Ringo...
...many of the American priests were clean shaven and wore suits. They also complained that the visitors were hell-bent on "de-Hellenizing" Orthodoxy. Archbishop Iakovos, head of the American church, took note of this hostility in his opening address at the 1,800-year-old Theater of Herodes Atticus near the Acropolis. "It sometimes seems to us," he said, "that you keep us at a distance, that you consider us strangers. Let it not be heard from your lips, that we have strayed from Hellenism...
...weather ashore in Constantine's domain last week was as calm as the Mediterranean. While tourists sunned themselves on the beaches and listened to David Oistrakh perform with the Utah Symphony Orchestra in the 1,800-year-old Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Premier Stephan Stephanopoulos, 67, celebrated his first full year in office in his cluttered quarters at the Parliament building. He had been sworn in as Constantine's solution to the summer-long constitutional crisis provoked by the resignation of Premier George Papandreou last summer and as a way of avoiding Papandreou's demand...
Last week the Pittsburgh Symphony was embarked on a twelve-week tour of Europe and the Near East sponsored by the State Department. Its two performances at the Herodes Atticus amphitheater in Athens drew 9,000 listeners. At the Lucerne Festival, the audience awarded the orchestra such a thunderous ovation that the festival management broke a longstanding rule and allowed an encore. The Pittsburghers' triumphant week was climaxed by a tempestuous reception for its Edinburgh Festival debut, with the Queen leading the applause...
...Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Peck's Oscar-winning performance as Atticus Finch is good, but the kids (Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and John Megna) almost steal the show in this pleasant screen version of the Pulitzer-prizewinning novel...