Word: nestor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was once a sweetly pensive French popsy named Irma-la-Douce, who plied her trade on the streets of Montmartre but reserved her true love for a handsome young pimp named Nestor-le-Fripé. Because he returned her love, Nestor put on a false beard and booked Irma by the week. After an interlude on Devil's Island, Nestor returned to "Coulaincourt, where stroll the filles d'amour," to settle down in unmarried bliss with his Irma. This curdled romantic idyl furnishes the plot for Irma-la-Douce, Paris' most popular long-run musical...
...hundreds of clay tablets found in the ruins of King Minos' palace at Knossos, Crete, and on the supposed site of King Nestor's palace near Pylos on the Greek mainland long provided archaeology with one of its most tantalizing mysteries. The tablets bore two scripts which scholars call Linear A and Linear B. But it was not until 1952-more than half a century after the Crete discovery -that Michael Ventris, British architect and cryptographer, broke Linear B, announced that its 87 "signs" closely paralleled Greek syllables (TIME, April 19, 1954). But what about Linear A? Even...
Half of Shakespeare's characters are less creations than caricatures: a fatuous Ajax, a vicious Achilles, a sniveling Thersites, a driveling Nestor. Shakespeare's narrative recounts the harlotry of love and the homosexuality of friendship, shows war grotesquely fumbled and honor traduced. In the violence of its mood and the slackness of its method, in its surface disillusionment and its underlying disgust, in its fierce, fanged bite-yet its biting off more than it can chew-Troilus and Cressida resembles a little those harsh Huxleyan "sophisticated novels...
Earlier digs uncovered the great hall where Nestor held court; this season the workers moved to the eastern wing of the palace. As their shovels cleared the floors of a suite of rooms, they sensed the feminine touch. "Nestorina [Mrs. Nestor]," they called to Dr. Blegen...
Queen Eurydice had a spacious reception hall with a circular fireplace in the center. Her boudoir had frescoed walls, and its stucco floor was gaily decorated with dolphins and octopuses. Like other parts of Nestor's palace, the Queen's apartments had terra-cotta pipes to carry off the smoke of the heating system. A small room, presumably a bathroom, had an underground drain. There was no bathtub, but since a terra-cotta tub was found in another part of the palace, Queen Eurydice may have had one too. Or perhaps her slave girls bathed her by pouring...