Word: superseminar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past six years, Doxiadis has invited 30 or so distinguished architects, businessmen, politicians and academics to a week-long superseminar on environment problems aboard a chartered Aegean cruise ship. Most expenses are paid by Doxiadis-who may or may not be a millionaire-and assorted wealthy friends. The trip always ends at the island of Delos, sacred to the ancient Greeks as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, where a formal summation of the results is read in the ancient theater. The event suggests that growing numbers of what might be called glamour intellectuals are drawn to the idea...
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