Word: greco-roman
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...Allegro suggests, their religion was vastly different from Pauline Christianity, which Allegro seems to consider a Greco-Roman corruption of this early faith-and possibly a corruption of Jesus' own faith. Asks Allegro: "Did Jesus himself go all the way of the New Testament? Did [He] really believe He was God in the flesh?" The Qumran community, writes Allegro, would have abhorred the concept of a God-man (as do the Jews and Moslems today), and they would not have thought of admitting Gentiles to salvation. But the Pauline emphasis on the resurrection was "an even greater difference...
...last year in both the Eastern Intercollegiate and National Collegiate Tournaments. It is his desire, of course, to make the U.S. Olympic Team, and the final tryouts will be held in Los Angeles at the end of April. This year, for the first time, the U.S. is sending eight Greco-Roman wrestlers, as well as eight free-style wrestlers* to the Olympics...
...Geography has triumphed over history, environment over heredity," says Siegfried. "The New World has lost all sense of reality of contact with Greco-Roman culture, which is characteristic of the formation of Europe, and if it remains fundamentally Christian, it is in the Jewish rather than the Greek sense, following the testimony of the Bible rather than critical argument." Today, says Siegfried, "American society appears as a first-class piece of organization ... a collective community with mass discipline and large-scale teamwork," devoted to ever greater production and ever higher standards of living...
...didn't do it now, nobody else would." Thanks to Scalzo's tireless prodding, 41 competitors got on the mat to grapple for the Greco-Roman titles. The large turnout meant that matches had to be cut to ten minutes-from the regular 15. As in catch-as-catch-can, Greco-Roman allows points for falls, near falls, takedowns, reversals and "activity." Discredit points are handed out for illegal holds, unsportsmanlike conduct...
...match between former Intercollegiate Champ Walter Romanowski, now an assistant coach at Purdue, and Safi Taha, of Atlanta, who competed for his native Lebanon in the 1952 Olympics. Taha quickly ran through five elimination matches, scoring falls in all. But Romanowski, who had picked up a few Greco-Roman pointers, countered Taha's every move expertly, finally pinned his man in seven minutes. Coach Scalzo, looking ahead to 1956, was jubilant: "It proves what I've said all along. American boys can learn Greco-Roman...