Word: greek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev, carrying a bouquet of bird-of-paradise flowers, sat beside Frank Sinatra, opposite Bob Hope and David Niven. Before them stretched a glittering panorama of jewels, dyed hair and suntans of a Hollywood movie colony so complete that even Eddie. Liz and Debbie were in the same room. Greek-born Spyros Skouras and Khrushchev got into a bumbling, emotional, unscheduled debate about how each had risen from their poorboy origins under their respective capitalist and Communist systems. Skouras scored the best line-"Your country is the greatest monopoly the world has ever known, colossal, colossal"-but Skouras' needling...
Rounding out their first full week as man and diva, Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas stayed quietly on the Onassis superyacht, anchored off the Greek coast, until the soprano decided she was having a "sentimental crisis." Off she flew on Onassis' lumbering DC-4 to give a concert in Bilbao, Spain. Sang Callas: "Unexpected things have happened, and the only remedy is to rise above them." To the disappointment of her Spanish audience, she barely managed to rise above middle C, moved one critic to write: "The Bilbao public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then...
...popular language Hell is the place of dreadful punishment . . . Is this how we should think of Hell?" Not at all, says Life and Death. The Bible uses the word Hell to translate the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades, which were underworld places where all the dead lived shadowy, unsubstantial, joyless lives; at least at first, Sheol or Hades was not considered a place of punishment or torment. Gradually, the idea developed that there was a difference between the life of the righteous and the life of the wicked in Sheol. The part where the wicked dwelt was called Gehenna...
...embarrassment," in President Pusey's Baccalaureate phrase--and who profess a belief in what that word signifies--do so in a sense that is far removed from both the letter and the spirit of anything to be found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament or the Hellenic Greek of the New. The idea of God as an ineffable opaque Presence, as the principle of causality, or as "the Ground of Being" and "Being-in-Itself" would surely have sent Abraham and Moses, Mary and the Magdalene, Saints Peter and Paul, into gales of reverent laughter; such a rarified...
...probably no accident that the apostasy rate is higher among Christians than Jews, and among Protestants than Catholics. (Anglicans, incidentally, defect at the rate of one out of every four.) For it was Christianity's natal entanglement with Greek philosophy that yielded the world its first major religion which claimed so purely cognitive an activity as theologizing as one of its most essential modes, and concentrated on the truth value of factual propositions. And it was Luther who proclaimed "the priesthood of all believers," declaring that each man has the right of genuine personal judgment before God on the most...