Word: delphi
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...times of ancient Greece, yet its tone is clearly Christian, including even a reference to Whitsunday. Hermione claims her father was Emperor of Russia, when there was then no such thing. A famous 16th-century Italian sculptor is cited by name. Shakespeare confused the oracle of Apollo at Delphi with the one on the island of Deios, and provided Bohemia with a seacoast it has never enjoyed. On top of that, the dramatist dared to jump 16 years between the third and fourth acts...
...southern flank, and with his political enemies dispirited or exiled, Papadopoulos would seem to be reasonably secure. But is he happy? No Greek, of course, would ponder the question openly. Lecturing in Athens last week, West German Novelist Gunter Grass was willing to do so. "I went to Delphi today," Grass observed. "The oracle suggested that only when Prime Minister Papadopoulos, in his role of Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regent, also becomes the Archbishop of Athens will he resemble God and take joy in himself...
...they were in some prehistoric slow-motion silent film. This is hierophantic theater, as old as time, as young as the infancy of man. To see The Grey Lady Cantata as performed by the Bread and Puppet Theater is rather like waiting in the mystic whispering groves of Delphi to hear the oracle speak. Despite the primordial trappings, this virtual dumb show is as contemporary as tomorrow's bombing raid. It is a cantata of death, an immensely sad and strangely affecting tale of the wartime slaughter of innocents...
...omens for the forthcoming Apollo 11 moon shot than the 3,000-year-old temple of the original Apollo? So off went Wernher von Broun, the man who directed the design of the rocket that will hurl American astronauts toward the moon this month, to visit the temple at Delphi. "Whatever Apollo's oracle said," reported Von Braun after the consultation, "I am convinced that we will succeed because no other space operation was ever so well prepared in advance." But what did the oracle predict? "The oracle," he said cosmically, "was ambiguous, as usual...
...Americans thus joined the distinguished tradition of the Romans and Turks who first adopted the vaucs of classical Greece and then, directly or indirectly, occupied the land of the Delphi because it happened to be a strategic piece of real estate