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There the play-1,000 lines without punctuation or word spacing-was painstakingly translated into French by Classicist Victor Martin of Geneva University. Menander emerged (circa 342-291 B.C.) during the decline of Athens, an era dominated by the Macedonian occupation. His audiences were no longer intellectually vibrant Greeks; they had an appetite for pulp stories that might have made them content watching a TV western. "Stay at home." one of his characters says. "A man is free nowhere else." Menander gave the Greeks sharply etched, lifelike stories, tenderly observed and hilariously written...
...last Sunday's New York Times, folded between the polite Book Review and the dignified Sunday Magazine, was a new, 16-page section that promised everything from history to sex-with four-color photography. The great stone face of Gary Cooper, garbed as a U.S. cavalryman (circa 1916) frowned from the cover, Vilma Banky and Marlene Dietrich appeared on pages 4 and 5, Rita Hayworth curved across pages...
Toward the tag end of winter, when the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate has been sewn into the hair shirt of academic strictures for dismal months, he begins to itch. As Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford or Cambridge, circa 1360, according to tradition) wrote about the approach of spring, "thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages." Last week at both universities, students were dreamily reviewing intricate plans for a modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela...
...Rock is unusually homogeneous, "consumed with apathy," until the appearance of the outsider threatens the power elite and probes the town's collective guilty conscience. The suspension of disbelief called for is somewhat greater than usual, owing to the improbable economic and social set-up of the town, population circa twelve, all of whom sport neuroses of one sort or other. One day's exposure to the hero is all the therapy they need to set them straight, however, while he seems also to have undergone Rebirth by the time he rides out of town...
...rocker, designer anonymous, manufactured back in 1860. And yet that ancient rocker, tendriled like a vine from the wine-heavy hills around Vienna, had a brisk, bald-bottomed rival in Charles Eames's up-to-the-minute en try in molded Fiberglas and wire. An art nouveau desk (circa 1903) by Hector Guimard that looked as sinuous as weeds under water held its place against a rigorously rectilinear chair by Le Corbusier...