Word: metropolises
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For the past two summers, the lazy countryside around the minuscule village of Sart in Turkey has been the scene of frenetic excavations. Under the field directorship of George M. A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Classival Antiquities at the Fogg Museum, archaeological experts from Harvard and...
Near the elegant main room of the "H.B.", a small room full of vases was uncovered. Though almost ready to close the expedition for the year, the two young archaeologists who found the area rushed to Professor Hanfmann who could verify the type of pottery. He excitedly identified the cases...
There were some who questioned the idea of a traffic-free interior city. "Rome cannot live in the shadow of its ruins," sighed // Tempo. "Rome is not Pompeii, but a living metropolis."
In a series of nine books published by Harvard University Press, Vernon and his colleagues will relate the findings of the three-year survey. The first, Anatomy of a Metropolis, by Vernon and Edgar M. Hoover '28, professor of Economics at University of Pittsburgh, was published last Monday.
We're all for this maneuver. GOP dairy farmers have milked city residents too long; without the port and industries of the metropolis, the rest of New York would have a few apple orchards and one honeymoon site. If the city secedes, Governor Rockefeller will have to resort to war...