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Only the heads of the three actors could be seen. Their bodies were inside giant clay urns. Spotlights kept picking out the appropriate urn as the dialogue developed like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playwrights: Beckett & the Theater of the Concrete | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...found an urn painting of Ajax and Achilles playing it during the siege of Troy; he found African chieftains playing for stakes of female slaves, and maharajahs using rubies and star sapphires as counters. He finally traced it back some 7,000 years to the ancient Sumerians, who evolved the six-twelve-sixty system of keeping numerical records." Out of this system of record keeping, the Sumerians developed this ur-game of board games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Pits & Pebbles | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

Master Pappenheimer, Senior Tutor Carey MacIntosh, and Dunster house committee members, all wearing top hats, drove up in a convertible to Taylor who handed the urn over with a smile and a handshake, obviously planning to get it back for another seven years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Seven Year Itch | 5/22/1963 | See Source »

...group of readings on the "historical problem of Joan of Arc" will be added to "I and E," while a section entitled "What is the Meaning of Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?" will be cut and replaced by a discussion of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gen Ed Texts Replaced Temporarily; New Editions Planned for Next Fall | 10/11/1962 | See Source »

...young lovers strolled arm in arm into Death's own mausoleum. "The urn can be our cup of passion," said the young woman joyfully, "and the ashes will make a carpet for love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playwrights: Smoke, Froth, Snort! | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

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