Word: parthenon
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...cruise moves on to Athens, where Nancy and Barnaby, surrounded by the majesty of the Parthenon, sing and dance "When You Want Me." They are both excellent, but it's been a long trip and some people are beginning to get a little tired...
...that could be Mammoth Cave swallowing the Parthenon of Nashville, the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn, last week opened a production of Troilus and Cressida. But what ho? There, on a camp stool, sat mighty Agamemnon, stroking his beard, smoking a ten-inch cigar, wearing the uniform of a Union general and looking for all the world like an actor dressed up to play Ulysses S. Grant. There too was doddering old Nestor, also wearing the blue, with binoculars around his neck. Menelaus wore pince-nez, and they all used the spittoon and the likker jug. The Trojan...
...diplomacy-a subtle blending of Bauhaus-style innovation with local tradition. It is three stories high, the top two of which are supported by columns at the center and suspended from roof girders at the outside. The visible columns are sheathed in the same Pentelic marble used on the Parthenon, and in time they will take on the Parthenon's golden tint. A blue ceramic screen en closes the ground floor, and the whole structure is built around a square inner courtyard much as were the houses of ancient Athens, thus combining dignity and friendliness, classic elegance...
...rate in half partly by sending medics to feed anti-VD pills to prostitutes. A Roman Catholic, he urged his men to go to church: "I think we all need a lot of divine assistance." He also encouraged them to go, toting cameras, to such uplifting places as the Parthenon, the Holy Land and the Oberammergau Passion Play. Since Anderson hates profanity, his was the Navy's sweetest-talking fleet (at least when he was on the premises...
...time suggesting the ageless charm of antiquity. In the Gibbings collection is a leather-topped folding stool with four sturdy horse legs, which was copied from a mid-6th century earthen plaque in the West Berlin State Museum. Other straight-legged stools are borrowed from a frieze in the Parthenon. Copied line for line and curve for curve from the stele of Hegesco, built in 400 B.C., is a large chair with curved back and legs. Gibbings' couches reflect the economy of the classical Greeks, who used them for sitting, sleeping or eating. Modern users, if they like...