Word: delphi
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...Jackie was charting her own Odyssey, over to Lesbos for a look at the island where the poet Sappho was supposed to have thrown herself into the sea. Then on to Crete for a session with Sister Lee Radziwill, clambering around labyrinthian Minoan ruins. The last stop was at Delphi, where, intent on the guide's words, she stumbled into a pothole. The First Lady quickly scrambled up and went on for a look at the site of the omniscient Oracle of Apollo, but demurely declined to pose a question...
...Lady of the Camellias. What prompted Franco Zeffirelli to "devise, design and direct" this revival of the dusty Dumas fils sob opera is a question the ancients would have put to Delphi. The question on opening night was whether the dry eyes outnumbered the open ones...
Descended from a long line of scholars headed by his great-grandfather, who was president of Harvard and editor of the five-foot shelf, Eliot ignores headlines and the cold war and makes his study nature. What he finds-from the eagle-hung abyss below Delphi to the song of the local vegetable man-delights him, and he passes on his delight to the reader in prose that is sometimes eloquent, sometimes merely latter-day inspirational. "The stars rained down their incandescent spears in sharply patterned salvos upon Mount Pentelikon and me. Staggering a little with my face uplifted, rapt...
...industrialization is just beginning in earnest, the companies that have spread branches in Greece read like a Who's Who of international business: Germany's Krupp, Italy's Pirelli, France's Pechiney and Saint-Gobain. The U.S.'s Reynolds Metals is breaking ground near Delphi for a $59 million aluminum plant using Greece's ample reserves of bauxite, and Dow Chemical has opened a polystyrene plant at Lavrion, site of ancient Greek gold and silver mines. From the rocky perch near Athens where Xerxes once helplessly watched his mighty Persian armada being turned back...
Dempsey cites a string of achievements in education, job retraining, highways, and attracting nuclear research industries, calls his opponent's charges "Alsop's Fables." Alsop's retort: fabled Fabler Aesop was put to death by the citizens of Delphi for refusing to distribute money to them -because he found them grasping and greedy...