Word: classics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Istiqlal (Independence) leaders, announced: "Morocco must realize that at the end of its evolution it will remain tied to France." The Sultan retaliated by always meeting Juin unshaven and by committing himself wholeheartedly to the Istiqlal, smuggling leaders into the palace, sometimes in trucks delivering groceries. In the classic divide-and-conquer style. Juin assiduously cultivated the antagonism of the mountain Berbers for the urban Arabs. He made a special ally of rich old El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, who claimed to command some 300,000 fighting Berbers...
...Parkman once on the head. He died immediately, and Webster saw that he would have to get rid of the body quickly. Until his death, however, he maintained that his crime was unpremeditated. He was executed by hanging in August 1850, thus closing what is often termed "America's classic murder...
...Harold running a sign-painting business, arrested him for absconding with the Modulator investors' money, gathered the facts and handed them over to a federal grand jury. From what the FBI had to say, it was clear that Harold's "cosmic con" signaled the decline of such classic earth-bound dodges as the Gypsy Swindle, Pigeon-Drop, Sick Old Man and Handkerchief Switch. But Spaceman Berney, who has a long record of convictions for embezzlement and fraud, said there had been a terrible misunderstanding. He has never been near Venus, he said. And he doesn't even...
Italy, from top to toe, is a vast museum containing some of the greatest monuments of Western civilization. But it is rapidly becoming one of the world's most ill-kept storehouses of classic art. ¶ In Venice, the parish priest of the 12th century church of San Felice, off the Grand Canal, was forced to stop in mid-Mass last spring as cracks suddenly opened across the church nave walls, showering the congregation with plaster. Near by, the floor of world-famed San Marco is sinking, Santo Stefano is developing its own leaning tower, scores of palazzos...
...book is born; a classic is forever reborn. Each generation supplies its own Pygmalions-men with the love and skill to breathe new life into the literary monuments of the past. As Pygmalions to the ancient Roman poets, two lifelong classics scholars and teachers, Gilbert Highet (Columbia) and Rolfe Humphries (now a lecturer at New York City's Hunter College after 32 years at Long Island's Woodmere Academy), have love and skill to spare. Poet Humphries renders Ovid's famed, amoral The Art of Love in its most readable translation since Dryden's, including...