Word: doric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greek Against Goliath. "Your name is a Doric column in the pantheon of the great heroes of our glorious nation," said Archbishop Theoklitos, Greek Orthodox Primate of Greece, presenting Grivas with the ancient Greek symbol of victory, a silvered laurel wreath. Grivas was weeping. "Small Cyprus fought Goliath," he said. "It did not succumb." He had consented to a peace that brought self-government to Cyprus but forbade it enosis (union with Greece). He handed the mayor of Athens a small bag of earth taken from his mountain lair, and said emotionally, "This bit of soil, soaked with the blood...
Rome Domesticated. Palladia was a master at building churches, convents and palaces. At 31 he walked off with a competition to reface the great medieval Basilica at Vicenza. His improvised solution-a two-story arcade made up of Doric and Ionic columns that frame intervening arches supported by free-standing columns-was so brilliantly successful that it has since been copied the length and breadth of Europe. A decade later he was the architect Venice turned to for the plans of San Giorgio Maggiore, one of the most beautiful, classically ordered churches in the city. But it was the country...
Married to a Giant. Like morning TV shows, Angel is run by a canny husband-and-wife team, but there is nothing sleepy-eyed about Dario and Doric Soria. Rome-born Dario Soria got into the record business more or less as a hobby while he was working as a radio director at CBS, and started to bring Italy's lively Cetra opera recordings to the U.S. as a sideline. The sideline grew into a busy firm (Cetra-Soria), which five years later Soria sold to Capitol in a deal that reportedly involved $1 million. In 1953 Britain...
...zdania or "tall buildings," bear a marked resemblance to New York's 1913 Woolworth building, but to Woolworth Gothic the Soviet architects added adornments borrowed from classical sources, and some of their own devising. Thus all eight vysotnye carry tall spires mounting garlanded Red Stars and as many Doric and Romanesque pilasters, rococo arches, turrets, flying buttresses, rooftop pergolas, asparagus-shaped domes, gingerbread plaques and ferro-concrete statuary as the construction will stand. The skyscrapers got the lion's share of Russia's postwar building resources, but the Communists received poor value for their money. Plumbing failed...
...Home. Walter Webb, big, strong and blue-eyed, was once a soldier and twice married. He was too vivid to be ignored, too likable when sober, too lethal when drunk. He killed his best friend in a quarrel over local politics and was put away for two years, although Doric always said, "He done it in self-defense." In 1944, to avenge another killing, Webb and a friend shot down a man in broad daylight at Hen's Corner, a moonshine saloon in the county seat of Manchester (pop. 1,706). Under oath Webb testified so roguishly, with such...