Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Piraeus, he declared that he had "come home to Banyuls, the same houses, same windmills, same trees and flowers." When a student later said to him, "The Acropolis must have struck you in the face," Maillol quietly replied, "On the contrary, it gave me a kiss." Like early Greek statues, Maillol's nudes wear an expressionless gaze; his statues are neither anecdotal nor are they portraits. "I look for beauty, not character," he said. "I look for architecture and volume. Sculpture is architecture, the equilibrium of masses, a composition with taste...
...what a terrible stare these beasts give you when you get close to them," confided Rainier breathlessly. At one dinner Elsa got one up on Hedda by taking over the piano to play Cole Porter tunes, accompanied by Rainier on drums. Then Ari bellowed the theme song (in Greek) from the movie Never on Sunday, while La Callas rattled the maracas but declined requests for an aria...
...member of the Disciples of Christ and onetime graduate student at Oxford who reads his Bible in Greek, Miller is also a moneymaking tycoon with a personal fortune that tops $100 million, the owner of a company (Cummins Engine) that builds more truck diesels than any other on earth, plus a bank, a cornstarch company and a chain of supermarkets. When he speaks to businessmen, they listen. Currently conducting his own mission to millionaires. Miller has spoken with effect to groups in Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Phoenix and Amarillo...
...valuables could be thrown and, in case of fire, hurled out the window. Next come two connecting rooms from a house in Lee, N.H.-a kitchen-living room and a "borning" or "measles" room with a tiny cradle. From then on, the Americans began to indulge themselves. An 1825 Greek Revival room from Manhattan is as elegant as Claverton Manor itself. On the other hand, the museum offers a country store with period posters ("SOCIAL DANCE," "AUCTION! !") and gingerbread...
Infantry of the Mind. The trouble with the metaphysics of chance is that it is too shallow for a true tragic destiny. Unlike the Greek and Elizabethan heroes, the Hemingway hero does not understand his fate. It's simply a dirty trick...