Word: demostheneses
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The production was a delightful compromise between ancient and modern dress and speech. Several of the lines were delivered perhaps a bit more graphically than Aristophanes intended, but that was alright. It made me catch several that I'd somehow missed before. There were several other nice touches besides Harmony...
Saved by Dysentery. There are fine passages when pontification yields to personal memory. Toynbee tells how Winchester and Oxford-where it was held that history and literature ended with Demosthenes and Juvenal-turned him into a Greek and Latin scholar. As a result he never quite ceased, despite his own...
Except Demosthenes Konstandies Andros-and the entire population (30,000) of Corvallis, Ore. A former Oklahoma guard, beefy "Dee" Andros, 43, is head coach of the Oregon State Beavers-if not the best team around, then certainly the most underrated. Five weeks ago, the Beavers scored a 22-14 victory...
Does the U.S. need heroes? Not in the sense of the man on the white horse who will take care of everything. To the uncertain, sheer conviction-right or wrong-is a kind of relief. This is what makes "heroes" out of the Hitlers, the Stalins, and even the Joe...
Danish Import. Yet Papandreou was still an orator without peer in the land of Demosthenes. And in choosing to attack the monarchy he had a vital issue, for the Greeks have often resented, and sometimes even exiled, a royal family that was originally (in 1863) imported from Denmark.