Word: minoan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought, 'That's better.' I started all over again." Taylor's improvising continued. The eventual motif was determined by Designer Gene Moore, who watched a run-through and said one word, "Crete." The resulting Images seems like an inevitable blending of Debussy with Minoan reliefs...
...this can be an obsessive pursuit, one of Minoan complexity. Tracing a family back to 1600 will involve roughly 65,000 ancestors, or half a million if you go back to 1500. The pastime demands the nose of a scandalmonger, the connective skills of an archaeologist and the flat-footed persistence of a private eye. It also helps if one is a linguist, a lawyer, a historian, a geographer and the bearer of a free pass on the world's airlines. It can lead to unpleasant surprises, such as finding that an ancestor was deported from Britain...
...site at Morphou is one of the important Bronze Age sites on the island because the Minoan pottery discovered there' established a link with an early civilization on Crete. If the pottery is lost the work at Morphou may have been set back four or five years, Vermeule said...
Died. Spyridon Marinates, 73, redoubtable dean of Greek archaeologists, who in 1967 unearthed the remains of an ancient city of 20,000 buried beneath volcanic ash on the Aegean island of Thera; of a skull fracture suffered in a fall at the Thera dig site. A center of ancient Minoan culture, Thera was practically wiped out overnight in a massive eruption about 1500 B.C., leading Marinates to surmise, though less strenuously than some of his colleagues, that its destruction was the basis for Plato's account of the lost island of Atlantis...
...They spell AUTOMAT, but in fact they defy reading. The signs have ceased to signify. They are fragments-not in the sense of being broken, but in the "historical" sense of archaic fragments: the illegible pictograph, the stone bearing a message in a dead language, the passage written in Minoan Linear B. The work is meant to suggest endurance-despite its dependence on paying the electricity bill...