Word: grecians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well, there's a Negro, there's an Italian, and there's a Greek and there's a Polack.' " Before newsmen late last week, Agnew sought -with some success-to make light of the whole thing by referring to himself as "Greek, er, Grecian...
...ancient Greece. He called for the institutionalization of promising youngsters, who were to be schooled thoroughly in mathematics, philosophy, fine arts and gymnastics. There would be no personal wealth nor family life-they would, however, be permitted to mate under "civic control" with specially selected women. At 35, the Grecian would graduate from the process as the perfect leader-void of personal ambition and with concern solely for the well-being of the Greek democratic system...
That isn't exactly Ode on a Grecian Urn; neither is Benedikt picking his way through seven types of ambiguity. For all their seeming frivolity, these lines exhibit a directness that has been increasingly admired ever since the mid-'50s when Allen Ginsberg and the beats accelerated the popularity of the simple, charged statement...
...Romans, by and large, adopted Greek styles as their own, became the world's first "antique" collectors by buying Grecian art. Workmen throughout the far-flung empire harked back to Periclean models, though the 2nd century Jupiter found in Belgium is Roman in its compact proportions. The Romans' greatest innovation was the realistic portrait, and their skills are powerfully summarized in a fleshy, glowering face, described by Yale Art Historian Sheldon Nodelman as "by far the most important of the Roman bronzes, one of the most striking pieces in the show." Though the portrait has not been formally...
...sometimes his own worst fate. Iphigenia in Aulis, presented last week at Manhattan's Circle in the Square in a translation by Minos Volanakis, shows men and women undoing themselves through ambition, power, lust, fear, guile and egocentric arrogance. At its heart, however, the play is a Grecian urn of tears, an incomparably moving lament for all who die young in war. Directed with musical cadence and poetic tension by Michael Cacoyannis, the drama drags human folly and grief screaming into the light...