Word: zeus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bernard Ashmole Professor Emeritus, Oxford University will lecture on Pediments of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia at 4 p.m. today at the Fogg Museum...
From 1958 to 1961, the WARP studied 12 major defense contracts including the Atlas, Jupiter, and Polaris missiles, the F4H intercepter, and the Nike Zeus anti-missile. Their case studies covered more than 1200 draft pages...
From Pound to the Beats. In the 20th century so far, the devotees of the "second chance" have constituted a remarkable poetic pantheon. The Zeus of that lofty company is himself still alive, though he has long since had his say. Erza Pound, 81, now living in Italy, fathered modern English poetry, freed it from excessive strictures of meter, rhetoric and prosody. One of his earliest converts was T. S. Eliot, who sensed the dilemma of modern, urban and areligious man, and whose dry, ironic style and endless rhythmic ways of weaving contemporary sounds are echoed in virtually every poet...
...understand," said Lahr, an alumnus of the Columbia Burlesque Circuit '23, "that Aristophanes allowed the comedian to do whatever he wanted." But no one in 23 centuries ever winged the Birds as Lahr did. When Prometheus reveals some of Zeus's confidences to him, Lahr calls him "a fink." When Zeus offers Lahr his wife, Bert busses her and then bellows his trademarked "annng-anng-anng." When Lahr stumbles over the pronunciation of "Agamemnon," he quips, "That's Greek to me." At one point, he even digresses into a rendition of his famous Frito-Lay TV commercial...
...modern communications, mythmaking, which is essential to heromaking, is far more difficult. The democratic press exposes leaders to a relentless scrutiny that no putative hero of the past had to survive. Alexander the Great was able to achieve hero status by his own declaration that he was descended from Zeus, and his far-off conquests were known to Macedonian peasants only by a crying in the market-the more magical because it was imprecise. If he slapped a soldier in the face or picked up a beagle by the ears, they might never have known...