Word: parthenon
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Hilton's U.S. hotels are generally good commercial hotels, but the Hiltons abroad are luxury tourist hotels that are more like resorts than hostelries. Hilton has sited on some of the finest hotel locations in the world-looking up at the Parthenon in Athens, near the Diet Building in Tokyo, overlooking the Vatican in Rome and the Queen's private garden in London, on the Nile in Cairo and above the Bosporus in Istanbul, at the foot of the Elburz Mountains in Teheran. All of the hotels glisten and glitter, with an architecture that ranges from international slab...
...architects who are currently building for the University been commissioned to design the Parthenon, western civilization would have been slowed by a good three centuries. As it is, they are abetting the decline of our own little civilization in Cambridge...
...measurement his work is a derivitive of some of the best Greco-Roman and Renaissance architect-humanists who based their architecture on the proportions of the human figure as well. With their own module, the golden section, they designed such visually beautiful buildings as the Colliseum and the Parthenon. Are these harsh and raw? Le Corbusier does use new materials--it is a new age; but the humaneness is borne out by the same proportions of the design. Thus, what I mean by the building being a functional companion to our activity...
...ENGLAND IMAGE, text and photographs by Samuel Chamberlain (192 pp.; Hastings House; $ 12.95). This is for spiritual New Englanders, the exiled yearners who can look at a plain wooden barn in a rocky Vermont field and see the Parthenon. It is customary to photograph New England in color (all those leaves), but the author's choice is black and white, and it is the better, sterner...
...first time," says Papadimitriou, "we can get a complete picture of the private life of ancient Athenians, especially the women." One relief from the stoa-as fine as anything that adorned the Parthenon-shows Zeus, Hera, Apollo and Artemis, all figures of commanding grace. But the statues of the children are the most endearing of the discoveries. For all the black talk of orgies, the boys and girls are sweetly innocent, fashioned with gentle care by artists of extraordinary talent. They sing of youth, not just that of individuals but of Western civilization itself-"the spring aroma," says Papadimitriou...