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...eddies set up by the gradual transference of power from Olympus to Golgotha were reflected in art. Some of the complexity of late classical and early Christian centuries can be sampled in a huge exhibition, which opened last month at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Age of Spirituality," assembled under the direction of Art Historian Kurt Weitzmann, is a magnificent compendium of some 450 works in every medium known to the ancient world?marble carvings, glass, gold, jewelry, silver, paint, cameos, cloth, mosaic, ivory, bronze...
...reading and writing take precedence. Collins divides her pupils into three reading groups of varying ability, launching the five-year-olds with Aesop's Fables and assigning myths, novels and legends to the more advanced students. She draws up her own comprehension questions based on the classics ("Mount Olympus is the home of the Norse gods. True or false?") and has her pupils-who include her own eight-year-old daughter-memorize poems and Latin vocabulary. "Who can say that the classics are too hard for eight-year-olds?" she argues. "Why spoon-feed them until they choke...
...photo proving that something-wind, a tremor, a frost heave-has caused a portion of the Martian surface to slump since it was photographed last October. The most spectacular shot in the current album is a "down the hole" look into the summit caldera, or crater, of Mars' Olympus Mons, a volcano that dwarfs the earth's mightiest peak, Mount Everest. Olympus Mons measures 600 kilometers (375 miles)-the width of the state of New Mexico-across its base and towers to 27.4 kilometers (90,000 ft.)-three times the height of Everest...
...turtleneck shirt and made his one-legged way to Comiskey Park, which weathers gracefully on the South Side of Chicago, like the ringmaster himself. It was clear and warm and sunlit, a morning for the gods, but Bill Veeck's team, the White Sox, had not descended from Olympus. From Alan Bannister at shortstop to Richie Zisk in right field, the 1977 Sox are human, at best...
Food and drink peddlers, promoters and itinerant entertainers surrounded athletes and spectators at the foot of Mount Olympus. (There was also competition for the contract to supply the games with olive oil, with which the athletes rubbed themselves before competing.) Professionalism, poor sportsmanship and sheer ferocity were rife. Some of the competitions were more violent than those in the games today. The most popular event was the pankration, a combination of wrestling, judo and boxing in which contestants punched, slapped, kicked and-if they could get away with it-even bit or gouged each other until one or the other...