Word: parthenon
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...Gilgul fun a Nigun: Jewish Musicians in New York, 1881-1945"; Nathan E. Lump '96 for "'Thus there are devils, there are spirits': Genre, Personal Experience, and Belief in Folkloristics and the Words of a Welsh Storyteller"; Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96 for "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home"; and James N. Miller '96 for "'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History of the Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa...
...modern-day Turks did not inhabit the Turkish coast, also known as Asia Minor, in ancient times. So do these artifacts truly belong to the Turkish nation? German and Turkish claims on the Trojan antiquities certainly ring hollow, particularly when you consider that the frieze of the Parthenon and other sculptures taken from the Acropolis in Athens, the crowning symbol of the birth of democracy, still reside as part of the controversial Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. I am sure that the return of these carvings to the descendants of ancient Greece would have "obvious nationalistic appeal...
What she's doing next: Possibly a year of professional basketball in Europe. Definitely consulting for the Parthenon Group in Boston. Eventually business and law school and a family as well. Interview by Anna D. Wilde
...Arts B-10 is the arts survey course students have sought unsuccessfully since the department stopped giving Fine Arts 13 after the spring of 1991. In addition to standards of Western art like the Parthenon and Michaelangelo, B-10 will discuss Indian, Japanese and other non-western...
...story. Busch Hall's cavernous stone interior contains the entrance to a cathedral and a lofty balcony from which two putti gaze impishly on the audience below. The cathedral door appears to have been taken from a church in Europe and brought whole to the United States, like the Parthenon friezes taken to England by Lord Elgin. This fact supports the play's and the story's vision of imperialistic thievery, where a powerful country despoils a weaker one of its riches...