Word: grecian
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...ancient Middle Eastern symbol of power, worn by lion-strangling heroes in the bloody days of Assurnasirpal. The powerfully striding thighs are molded with an easy naturalism virtually unknown until the time of the Greeks, yet the cylindrical form and spellbound air of the entire figure are pre-Grecian. The boots are even odder than the horned helmet they counterpoint. Hittite sculptures sometimes have upturned toes, but never so exaggerated. A few experts guess that the boots are a sort of combination ski and snowshoe, pointing to a mountain origin, yet most of the body is naked to the cold...
Frenchmen call the National Assembly building "The House Without Windows." Inside its sooty, neo-Grecian walls last week, it was as if the outside events of the past three months had never happened...
...centuries before and after King Xerxes camped there with his Persians waiting to do battle at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the plain of Anthele lay bleached and barren. No trees grew to shade its parched acres from the relentless Grecian sun; no water flowed over the bank of the winding Sperchios River to wash them clear of salt and alkali. For generations, no local farmer even bothered to put his plow to the 9,000 useless acres of the plain, and even those who worked the stingy lands on its edge were forced to content themselves with only the scantiest...
...found it easy to cash in on this vast and uncritical acceptance. NBC, which he now hates as the captive Grecian maiden hated the mustachioed Turk, refuses to pay more than a niggling $28,000 a program, although the network extracts a total of $3,000,000 annually from the show's sponsors (biggest contributor: Chesterfield). A few months ago, however, Webb finally found a way out of this financial dilemma; to the Music Corp. of America last year he sold the rights to 100 completed Dragnets and to 95 more which will be filmed in the future...
...that began Sept. 21, 1818−"the most amazingly creative year that any English poet has achieved." Within that year Keats turned out, among other poems, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, the Ode to Autumn, the Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian...