Word: grecian
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...sunset-pink gown was smashing all right, but it was Princess Margaret's new hairdo that set the crowd at London's glittering Dockland Settlements Ball atwitter. Obviously inspired by some Grecian yearn, it was swept abruptly back from her forehead and fixed with jewel-studded pins above and behind her ears. The effect was a kind of outsized ponytail with the ends curled back along Meg's shapely neck. "It can't be all her," whispered one Lady, smelling a royal rat. "Of course it's not," said another. Only her hairdresser knew...
...group of readings on the "historical problem of Joan of Arc" will be added to "I and E," while a section entitled "What is the Meaning of Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?" will be cut and replaced by a discussion of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins...
Innumerable seductions and suicides later, Sewell burns to death, and good old Thebes (Mich.) is saved. A blind newspaper editor pronounces an un-Grecian moral: "With mortals, as with cards, play the percentages; you may draw successfully to a straight of vice, but more frequently a full house of virtue will take...
Back only 24 hours from a Grecian honeymoon with Director Tony Richardson, veteran Ban-the-Bomber Vanessa Redgrave, 25, mounted a Hyde Park soapbox and declared: "I would like to be home with my husband, but if the bomb is dropped and I have played no part in protesting against it, I would be as guilty as the man who pressed the button." At the edge of the heckling crowd stood Actor Sir Michael Redgrave, 54, Vanessa's father. "I believe in what she says in principle," he said, "but I am against this civil disobedience. It could...
Huntress Hippolyta looks like a sort of Katharine Hepburn on a Grecian urn. Moreover, the puppets move with amazing fluidity and naturalness-every second of screen time represents 24 changes of position; the complete film, running 74 minutes, required exactly 106,560 moves -through scenes designed with antic charm and persistent style. The spectator soon accepts the intricate artifice and sinks happily into a swoon of poesy and forms, well met by moonlight...