Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller has expanded his famed 1955 one-acter about a longshoreman's fatal and incestuous jealousy into a powerful drama that approximates, even though it falls short of the catharsis of Greek tragedy...
...your issue of March 12 you reproduced a large bronze sculpture of mine, most handsomely in color, over the caption Evolution of the Minotaur. However, in evolving the bull-headed monster from Greek legend, I did not conceive him to have changed his sex. The work you reproduced is another, entirely different, and female figure, called Oracle...
ZORBA THE GREEK. An uproarious Bacchanalian bash out of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, superbly acted by Anthony Quinn as the wild old goat whose life is a series of total disasters...
...supposed to know their place. A Selma ordinance of 1852 declared that "any Negro found upon the streets of the city smoking a cigar or pipe or carrying a walking cane must be on conviction punished with 39 lashes"-and the place has not changed much since. Generations-old Greek Revival homes grace the white residential district; the Hotel Albert, built with slave labor and patterned after the Doge's Palace in Venice, is a first-rate inn. But the symbol of Selma is Sheriff James Clark, 43, a bully-boy segregationist who leads a club-swinging, mounted posse...
...embraces all the muses. In its collection are 4,000 musical instruments from a baroque organ to Alpine zithers; and the museum's three Stradivarius violins are regularly lent for concerts in the Met's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Its priceless collection of 1,450 Greek pots includes all the known shapes of Attic vases across three centuries, except for one, an elusive type of lekythos. One corner of the museum contains an unequaled war lord's ransom of well-wrought jade in the Heber R. Bishop collection...