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REPORT TO GRECO, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The tormented Greek writer's autobiography is a powerful, personal testament and a key to the sources of his obsession with God. Kazantzakis died when the book was only in first draft, but the occasional rudeness and awkwardness show the raw energy in his creative gift...
Married. Rosemary Park, 58, accomplished daughter of one college president (Wheaton), sister of another (Simmons), herself president of two colleges (Connecticut College 1947-62, Barnard since 1962); and Milton Vasil Anastos, 56, professor of Byzantine Greek at the University of California; he for the second time; in Greenwich, Conn...
This century is likely to expire before qualified men find Nikos Kazantzakis' true place in the pantheon of literature. His claims on greatness must await the patient perspective of time. He wrote eight novels, of which three-Zorba the Greek, The Greek Passion and Freedom or Death-are well known...
...scholar, he converted the classics of seven languages into Greek. As a philosopher, he absorbed Bergson, Nietzsche, Buddha and Lenin, and formed a derivative, somewhat nihilistic creed that seemed to sentence man to hopelessness and Western civilization to death. As a poet, he added 33,333 poetic lines to Homer's Odyssey-three times the master's output-and then dared to call it a modern sequel to that epic from the dawn of Western thought...
...title pays Kazantzakis' respects to another dark and stormy Greek, born, like himself, on the island of Crete: Domenico Teoto-copulo, better known as the artist El Greco...