Word: zeus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human imagination, the eagle has long been more a symbol than a bird. It was celebrated by the Egyptians as the bird of the sun, the lion of the sky. It was known to the Greeks as the emissary of Zeus, and blamed in their legends for the death of Aeschylus -an eagle, the story goes, mistook the bald head of the dramatist for a stone and dropped a turtle on it. It is most familiar to Americans as the heraldic symbol on the U.S. Seal of State. But the real-life eagle beggars all symbolic descriptions...
...former home in Asia Minor. The arch could not have been Etruscan: those artisans never got to the city. It was not Roman: they arrived long after the city was built. Moreover, Greek lettering on a marker at the base invokes the blessing and protection of the Greek god Zeus...
Worth the Gamble? Nike-X would use two types of missiles. One is the Nike-Zeus, a long-range, supersonic bird that, in tests, has already proved its ability to intercept and down an ICBM traveling 18,000 m.p.h. far above the atmosphere. The other is Sprint, a shorter-range missile with a tremendous but highly classified starting power. Sprint has months, or even years, of testing to go before it can even begin to be considered operational. But the idea is that the Nike-Zeus would go off first, seek out and try to destroy all incoming, outer-atmosphere...
...rest of the cast again did justice to the script, although I once more wanted more speaking and less action. The red lights of the climax in Rex were replaced by the shattering booms of Zeus' thunder; even Laura Esterman as Ismene, with emotion shivering in every syllable, was drowned out by the noise. Friedman as Creon again, Richard Backus as Theseus, and David Blocker, who replaced a less talented Lorenzo Weisman of Rex as the leader of the Colonus chorus, supplied that immeasurably graceful skill of speech which brought me back from the visual, just as I had wanted...
...current production of Shaw's Man and Superman is exquisitely performed, brilliantly thought out, and acted with a thoroughgoing ensemble spirit. A.P.A. took five years to reach its present perfection; Lincoln Center apparently expected its own repertory company to rise full-grown like Athena from the brow of Zeus...