Word: parthenon
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...Athens people danced in the street by moonlight, carrying at the head of their procession the victory flag that had been flown on the Parthenon. First Corizza, then Porto Edda, then Argirocastro -the three advance Italian bases in Albania-now side by side over all three flew the double eagle of Albania and the blue and white banner of Greece. The Greeks rejoiced and the world was stunned...
...Children of Socrates." Bravely over the sandbagged Parthenon last week, as November ended and bitter winter began, flew the blue & white flag of Greece. And bravely through the world, Minister of National Security Constantine Maniadakis, right bower of Premier General John Metaxas, appealed for aid in the struggle to come. Said he: "We address ourselves particularly to the great, strong, liberal union of the United States of America. We pay no attention to the enemy's material strength, and neither do we dare pay attention regarding the intentions of other probable enemies [Germany] . . . the children of Socrates, Plato...
Here and there rose a less gloomy voice -that of Bryn Mawr's Archeologist Rhys Carpenter, who said that the "golden age" of Greece was tarnished and that even the Parthenon had ragged edges; of University of Paris' Professor Charles Cestre, who sent a paper praising modern U. S. poetry; of Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador to the U. S., who, observing that President Roosevelt could not even carry his own Dutchess County, declared that the U. S. was in no danger of dictatorship...
When, three years later, he wrote "Monday I was free to climb over the darned walls and spend a night alone in the Parthenon," a lot of water had gone under the bridge. His Royal Road to Romance was a raving bestseller, and Richard's whole trip was a professional set piece: a stunt following-out of the wanderings of Ulysses...
Etcher Joseph Pennell called it "that Greek garage." But the sun-colored classic shell of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is big enough to house the Parthenon in part of one wing. For 20 years, on its rock above the Schuylkill, it has been abuilding. Less than half of its seven-acre floor space is finished and open to the public. Even so, it is a notable museum. This week it became still more notable with the opening of a whole new Oriental wing...