Word: cretan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most poignant of all confrontations with truth is confession. Yet in his nationally televised confrontation with truth, Clinton revealed a notion of truth as endlessly self-reflecting as a fun-house mirror. It has the vertiginous feel of Epimenides' paradox, which (in one version) reads, "All Cretans are liars. I am a Cretan. Therefore I am a liar." (But, of course, if I am a liar, I'm lying about being a liar, and thus I'm not.) The lies-feeding-lies circularity is deeply disturbing. You feel you can never climb...
...Hoopes prize also went to Alexandra M. Molnar '96 for "Through the Lens of Tourism: Shaping Identity in a Cretan Town"; Roxanne S. Tze Pan '96 for "Searching for the New Citizen: Liang Qichao's Conception of Freedom"; Michele R. Pelot '96 for "Mixed Chimerism and Adoptive Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Chronic Leukemias"; Timothy F. Platts-Mills '96 for "Spatial Variation in the Chemical Composition of Surface Waters in the Front Range, Colorado"; Elizabeth G. Ree '96 for "'Is It Art?': Changing Perceptions of Modernism and the Function of Art by the Public, Critics and Writers in Response...
...help us along the road because the material might be in some sense dry and arcane to many people. Each actor has a little riddle or an obstacle for Garrison, who has to work his way around it to move farther into the heart of the labyrinth, where the Cretan Minotaur lives...
...there it was...a big Minoan mason's mark all over the facade of the tomb. It was the first time we ever understood that Cretan architects were building Greek tombs for Greek princes," says Vermeule...