Word: hadrian
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...insulting, legacy from the richest man in the world. The bulk of his estate went to the Getty Museum in Malibu, an institution that tax-sheltered much of its founder's collection and finally shielded his remains. Getty was buried near the museum, a stagy imitation of the Emperor Hadrian's Villa dei Papyri, though not before his lawyers found a way around a California law that prohibits graves on private land...
Archaeology is something of a national sport in Israel. The most recently completed excavation is a 200-yd.-long stretch of the original Roman main street, called the Cardo. Under Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century, the Romans made it a grand boulevard lined with columns and shopping arcades. It continued to be maintained under Byzantine rule. In 1971 a plan was devised to build a cluster of town houses and a shopping mall along the nearby Street of the Jews. But when ancient column stubs were found, from both Roman and Byzantine times, Architects Peter Bugod and Esther...
...member Académie Française was established by Cardinal Richelieu in 1634 to uphold France's literary standards, it has barred its doors to women. But now the "Immortals" have voted to breach France's macho line by admitting Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, 76, author of Hadrian's Memoirs and acclaimed translator of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Though Yourcenar holds U.S. as well as French citizenships and has lived in Maine for 30 years, what bothered the twelve who opposed her was principally her gender. Philosopher Jean Guitton, 78, grumbled that bringing a woman into...