Word: kores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years Director John Meliades has been rearranging and patching together ancient fragments. His special prides are a 6th century Kore and the 5th century Nike (opposite), contrasting pinnacles of the Greeks' swift transition from archaic power to classical refinement...
Present fashion has partly reverted to the archaic, preferring the Kore to the Nike. To devotees of abstract art, the Kore seems the less fussy and closer to the "pure form" of modern sculptors such as Brancusi and Henry Moore. Yet the Kore's abstract balance is physical and intensely feminine too. She bulges the stone, breathing, and smiles from her cliff of self most tenderly. The Nike (Victory) has greatness of another order: she moves like a swirl of gauze and a body both, proudly displaying the lightness of spirit-filled flesh. She is the archaic maid...
Happy Burial. The Kore and other archaic statues were preserved by a happy chance of Greek history. In 480 B.C., invading Persians broke up the Acropolis statuary. But the Persians were defeated and turned back in Themistocles' great naval victory of Salamis. Returning, the Greeks piously buried the fragments of the sacred statuary on the Acropolis itself...
...North Koreans you are really fighting Russian Communism . . . Every time you hit the North Koreans you will be striking a blow, for freedom. In Korea you will be fighting just as if you were defending your beloved homeland and its people." Early this week, the British battalions landed in Kore...
...Kore Da!" Matsui did rebuild, but he was not to remain Hiroshima's leading printer of beer and sake labels, government securities, and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere bonds. In the time of Hiroshima's agony he had found a new work. One day he noticed five small schoolchildren, dressed in rags and sitting on boxes in the midst of the rubble. In front of them, their teacher was drawing kana characters (syllable symbols) with a charcoal stick on a piece of slate. The sight changed Matsui's plans instantly. "Kore da!" he said to himself...