Word: agora
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...Forum was first envisioned nearly 30 years ago at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) by Associate Dean Ira Jackson and then-Dean Graham Allison, now Director of KSG’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Allison proposed mirroring the Forum on the Greek agora, an arena of conversation, politics, philosophy, and commerce. Over the past 27 years, the Forum has attempted to embody these characteristics, hosting more than 1,700 events seen by live audiences totaling more than 500,000 people with millions watching on cable television, teleconferencing, and the Internet. Since its inception...
...course, the precise demographics of an FDE will vary based on the local area’s population. But such establishments universally share the role of being to local under-21’s what the agora was to the ancient Greeks—an open forum to meet, eat, drink, discuss, fraternize, argue, be friends...
...hiked up the acropolis, toured the ancient Agora and struck a snapshot pose at the grounds where Pericles once preached the wonders of democracy. You've bought a lamp of Aphrodite with a clock mounted in her belly, and you've paid $8.99 for a slice of mousaka that tastes like the rubber Parthenon you picked up for the folks back home. What next? Get out, out of the tourist rat-runs and into Psirri and Votanikos. There lie the liveliest new quarters of old Athens. Once home to the country's best craftsmen, Psirri, a honeycomb of one-room...
...culture-bearing beings, but culture is not going to break out where people are anonymous and thrown together in a mass," he says. "Cultural activities could disappear because they have been siphoned off to mass culture." Harvey, a self-educated college dropout, talks a lot about William James, agora, public squares and preaching civitas. Only he makes it interesting...
...Family Room As a counterpoint to the individual appliance zones, the open family room will be a nonvirtual agora for those who crave an old-fashioned encounter with a relative...