Word: greco-roman
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...from where the Olympic spirit first caught fire, Greece's Charalambos Holidis, 28, seems poised to carry the Parthenon bodily to Los Angeles. Yet the menacing pose of the Greco-Roman wrestler is only part of the picture. True, Holidis is the reigning European champion in the 57-kilo category (roughly 126 Ibs.), and he might have held the world title had he not broken a finger during last year's competition. He finished second, winning high marks for courage and determination. "You should have seen him fighting," says the president of the Greek wrestling federation. "He just refuses...
Wreatler Paul Wideman '83 won the pre-Olympic trials meet in the 165 pound weight class and is now the top seed in the final rounds. Jeff Clark '88, who will enter Harvard in next year's Freshman class, is in the finals in Greco-Roman wrestling...
Captain Craig Beling tested Jeff Blatnick, Springfield's standout in the unlimited class his roughest match this year, but Beling expended too much energy escaping a Greco-Roman throw in the first period and Blatnick capitulated, pinning Beling...
...holds that Christ is the second Person of the Trinity, who became God in human flesh. The seven theologians consider this belief "a mythological or poetic way of expressing [Jesus'] significance for us," not literal truth. The old doctrine was formulated to express faith in Jesus within a Greco-Roman culture, the authors contend, but in modern times it just will...
...Testament, Paul's views on sexuality were colored by his shock at the Greco-Roman world at the time. The homosexuality of Paul's era, says Norman Pittenger of England's Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity, "was often just licentious, not in any way a noble and moral affair as it had been among many of the Greeks of, say, Plato's time." Some argue that today's homosexuals, if not noble, are often truly loving. The British Society of Friends in its book Toward a Quaker View on Sex maintains that "it is the nature and quality...