Word: rome
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...that in the long and murky history of the Games things have looked considerably bleaker. For centuries after their founding, write John Kieran and Arthur Daley in The Story of the Olympic Games, the Olympics provided "the great peaceful events of civilization." Yet eventually, as Greece gave way to Rome, "they lost the spirit of the older days. Winners were no longer contented with a simple olive wreath as a prize. They sought gifts and money. [Heartened yet?] The games, instead of being patriotic and religious festivals, became carnivals, routs and circuses." Halted by the Roman Emperor Theodosius...
...Rotterdam, the CIVIL warS has been unfolding in impressive national installments. The German module, which comprises parts of the opera's first, third and fourth acts, was unveiled in January to popular acclaim in Cologne. It was followed in March by Act V, with music by Glass, in Rome. Late last month the U.S. made its contribution to Wilson's epic with the premiere in Minneapolis of the Knee Plays, crucial connecting episodes tinged with delicate orientalism that link the vast work's 15 scenes. All the sections, including the still unperformed French and Japanese portions, were...
...Knee Plays, by David Byrne, who is best known as the aggressive lead singer for the progressive rock group Talking Heads, to the sound collages of Germany's Hans Peter Kuhn. At least one section, however, amounts to a full-fledged opera: Glass's Act V, from Rome...
...folklore and literature of nearly every tribe and climate are riddled with riddles. Enigmas abounded in ancient Rome, in Sanskrit hymns and the sagas of the Norse. Galileo composed some, so did Shakespeare and Cervantes. In the last century, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll experimented with trick questions; in this century, J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit offered a few original puzzles: "A box without hinges, key or lid. Yet golden treasure inside is hid." Answer: An egg. The sport trickled down to Gotham City, home of Batman and Robin; in a recent comic-book adventure, the Riddler...
...full-scale Pre-Raphaelite allegory, like Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd, 1851-52. This sunny, pastoral scene of two rustics flirting was actually a warning against the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in England. The girl in the red skirt refers to the scarlet woman of Rome; the lamb in her lap is about to sicken from the green apple of false knowledge it has bitten; the sheep, wandering unattended into the corn, are the strayed flock of the Anglican clergy...