Word: troy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Starting from Troy in 1932, Professor . John L. Caskey of the University of Cincinnati has dug his way along the fabled trade routes of the Aegean Sea. Last summer he stopped at the island of Kea, reckoning that its wind-sheltered harbor offered a natural anchorage for ancient mariners. Caskey was right. This summer, on Kea's St. Irene peninsula, he found a Mycenean settlement dating back 3,500 years, complete with temple, palace, private homes with inside plumbing, and a municipal sewer system. Scattered through the town were fragments of delicate Cretan pottery. The settlement was probably destroyed...
Cold Wind in August (Troy; Aidart), a rutty melodrama about a thirtyish stripteaser (Lola Albright) who falls in love with a 17-year-old janitor's son (Scott Marlowe), does not merely invite cynicism, it drags cynicism in off the street and loosens its tie. Obviously, the film will be a financial success, because it is loaded with skin-on-skin sex. No cynicism here, nor in the observation that part of the film's distinct, if flawed, artistic success is due to a tight budget...
...point is that Troilus can be validly set in almost any time and place. Ancient Troy is of course possible. But so is the Spain of the 1930's of Korea of the 1950's or Berlin of the 1960's. Of all Shakespeare's plays, it is actually the least dependent on a visual setting; and it loses least over the radio of phonograph...
...rate, the Civil War is a perfectly viable solution: the Trojans are the Confederate Gray, and the Greeks are the Union Blue. Appropriately, Robert O'Hearn designed for Troy a neo-Doric portice such as often found in Southern architecture; and, for the encamped Greeks, a covered wagon and pup tents, complete with offstage harmonica...
...last year's brilliance. Pink and purple, though still blindingly around, are moving aside for brown mixed with black and other softer combinations. A fashion show put together by the buying house Felix Lilienthal & Co., highlights such colors as cognac, pumpkin, mustard and apricot. Mollie Parnis and Hannah Troy are two of many showing soft brown, smoky green, and blue (robin's egg, peacock) for daytime. Arthur Jablow's collection by David Kidd includes suits in browns from palest beige through butterscotch to ebony, while Jane Derby combines navy and green. Though Cassini uses bright colors...