Word: grecian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charter yachts, or smaller, 30-ft. caïques that sleep two or three (for $40 a day), travelers can move on southeast to the Cyclades: Santorin, with its unearthly landscape; Paros, from which the masters quarried their famous marble; and Mykonos, which has lately become a kind of Grecian Capri. For 50?, travelers can make the round-trip caïque ride to nearby Delos, Apollo's birthplace, which the Greek government maintains as an uncommercialized museum. There, in an eerie, glaring white silence, are the remarkable ruins of houses, theaters and temples-a ghost town from which...
...14th century battlements, and the lush rhododendron and bazaars are worth savoring for a day or two (the Hotel Miramare is on a good beach, has private bungalows, charges $10 for a single room). Sailing up the chain, travelers experience even more the feel of how the Grecian islands are creatures of the sea, bound by myth and religion, commerce, a mystical aloneness: Kos, where Hippocrates was born; Patmos, where the monastery exhibits the St. Mark Gospel written in silver on 33 leaves of purple vellum (and where the hard-scrabbling islanders, says a visitor, "live on packages from relatives...
That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing. Several more will open soon. Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial-neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis...
Stave & Stupa. Johnson's recent work (see color) shows how far he has gone in breaking new ground while finding imaginative uses for old forms. The haystack-shaped shrine, set in a Grecian court in New Harmony, Ind., was built as a memorial to the Harmonists, a German Separatist sect that assured its own extinction by faithfully practicing celibacy. But to Johnson it suggests the stave churches of Norway and the stupa forms of India. Without its name, the Nuclear Reactor Building in Israel could be a medieval cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems...
...premature fame with a handful of lush poems-/ crave infernal dances and insensate sounds The breasts of Grecian concubines to pass the night...