Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest cultural strains that influenced Western civilization flowed through Lydia in Asia Minor, for many centuries an industrial and financial center. Many historians believe that the Etruscans of Italy, from whom the early Romans got much of their culture, were Lydian colonists. The last King of Lydia, Croesus, was legendary for his vast wealth, and his capital, Sardis, was a splendid city that served after his death as the western capital of the Persian Empire...
...golden Lydian treasures or inscriptions in Lydia's language have yet come out of these diggings, but archaeologists are excited and hopeful. Lydia's contribution to civilization was largely obscured by the Greeks, who proverbially wrote all the histories and gave themselves all the breaks. The finding of Lydia's splendid capital may lead to better knowledge of the non-Greek roots of Western culture...
...Americans ("very friendly"), Manhattan ("too noisy"), the Broadway musical West Side Story ("too sexy"). When the dancers visited Harlem, they were amazed to find broad streets where they had expected to find "oppressed classes" living in shacks. The stoutly Republican New York Herald Tribune, learning that blonde Dancer Lydia Skriabina cherished but could not afford a $5 mechanical bear, sent a reporter dashing out to buy it and present...
...LYDIA SIDERYS Indianapolis...
...Lydia stuck to her story. After a six-day trial, a Venango County jury last week found her not guilty. Lydia Dean decided that she would stay on in Pleasantville, "to be near my husband." And in Oil City the Optimists and the Opti-Mrs. got together for a big victory celebration...