Word: aeschylus
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Died. George Gilbert Aime Murray, 91, spare, brilliant Greek scholar and Oxford don (from 1908), eminent translator of Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Aristophanes. After the shock of losing many friends and students in World War I, Murray joined Lord David Cecil and Sir Norman Angell in urging a strong League of Nations, in 1946 became a joint president of Britain's United Nations Association. The precise scholar, who could also baffle friends with a parlor trick of taking off a sock without removing his shoe, once said that "only in peace is it possible...
...sharp his implication that the defendant in the case is not only this jury but the entire jury system, and even justice itself as the Anglo-American mind conceives it. And with a mixture of classic craft and hard-cover whodunitism that sometimes suggests a weirdly successful collaboration between Aeschylus and Agatha Christie, Scenarist Rose has jittered his melodrama with fierce juridical excitement...
...Thalia, Melpomene and Terpsichore rolled into one. She and her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty masterpiece of the first great dramatist in history...
...more esoteric cultural events of the summer--or of any time, for that matter--will take place here this evening, August 9, when the Summer School presents a film-adaptation of the Oresteia of Aeschylus in the original Greek language...
Building Resentment. Thus Cyprus' tragedy deepened, as relentlessly and starkly as if Aeschylus had written it, and mere humans could not change it. To the British the hanged Cypriots were terrorists; to the Greeks they were martyrs...