Word: classics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even today, Romans prefer to dwell on the grandeur of classic Rome rather than recall the Etruscan kings, who, as Livy reminded them, could once make the Roman Senate tremble. But tucked away in a corner of Rome's Villa Borghese park is one of the world's richest collections of Etruscan art, which each year is drawing increasing numbers of visitors. Housed in the massive Villa Giulia, built in 1555 as a papal summer resort, the collection today numbers bronzes, terra-cotta sculptures and artifacts in the tens of thousands, displays its choicest treasures in two floors...
...months, Frondizi's austerity has turned from vague phrase into dinner-table reality. Headlined Noticias Gráficas: DISASTER HITS ARGENTINE TABLE. "Commodities that were never missing from tables of the most modest homes," the paper said, "are now fast disappearing, such as wine, butter and the classic Argentine barbecue. How far can a meager family income...
...blitz raid of Sunday, Dec. 29, 1940, was one of the worst. "The weight of the attack," wrote Sir Winston Churchill later, "centered upon the City of London itself. It was an incendiary classic. Nearly 1,500 fires had to be fought. Eight Wren churches were destroyed or damaged. The Guildhall was smitten by fire and blast, and St. Paul's Cathedral was only saved by heroic exertions. A void of ruin at the very center of the British world gapes upon us to this day." But for all its grim destruction, the "incendiary classic" may yet have some...
...Jack Benny Program (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). One of the classic TV shows, now nearly nine years old, in which Jack invites himself to dinner at the home of the late Ronald Colman...
...fact about Simone de Beauvoir that emerges most clearly from the Memoirs is that she lacks the classic French quality of mesure, or "nothing in excess." From the dutiful daughter she became the no-quarter feminist. From the total order of Catholicism, she moved to the universe of total absurdity embodied in atheist existentialism. Even travel, which ought to have broadened her mind, merely served to harden her. Thus, thinking Communism good, she went to Red China (The Long March) and found it a paradise; thinking the U.S. bad, she found America, Day by Day a demihell. The purity fetish...