Word: troys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dame Rose Macaulay. 286 pages. Thames & Hudson distributed by International Book Society, a division of Time Inc. $17.50. On none of her 30 books did the late Dame Rose Macaulay bestow more love and scholarship than on Pleasure of Ruins, her unique evocation of civilization's past. Troy, Nineveh, Tyre, Thebes, Babylon, Carthage, Persepolis, Byzantium-all the fallen cities rise again from the centuries in her memorial. In this volume, Constance Babington Smith, Dame Rose's cousin, and Canadian Artist-Photographer Roloff Beny have paid lovely tribute to those glorious ghosts. Beny's 172 photographs, twelve...
Youngest V.P. Braniff's board chairman, Dallas Financier Troy Post, had planned his raid well. Even before his Greatamerica Corp. bought control of Braniff last summer and installed him as chairman, he had carefully compared Braniff's record with those of five other airlines of comparable size. His finding: Continental had grown faster than all the others-a remarkable 545% in the last ten years. Further study led him directly to Lawrence, who is largely responsible for Continental's record of quality service, imaginative promotion, low costs, on-time performance and efficient use of jets...
...reveals, slept with his hair in curlers; Sir Walter Scott was as stout a trencherman as any character in his historical novels. Gronow was a friend of Shelley's at Eton, and recalls how the fledgling poet, inspired by Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech in the original Greek." But stubby...
...there and keep them out of the hands of the little old lady who lets out seams and fixes the collar lines. Even high-style couturiers, who have a tendency to sniff at anything not imported from foreign showrooms, showed high-style appreciation. Some-like Oleg Cassini and Hannah Troy-went so far as to rush right in with some select stretch dresses with give where it counts...
...granted every whim of pleasure. The request makes Faustus an archetype of Western man, with his aspiring mind, towering ambition, compelling curiosity and vaulting pride. With Mephistophilis to do his bidding, Dr. Faustus conjures up spirits, becomes invisible, plays pranks on the Pope, and makes love to Helen of Troy ("Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships...