Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller's brooding tragedy fuses Greek themes with the story of a Brooklyn longshoreman and his family...
Rising to demand a vote of confidence in Parliament last week, Greek Premier George Anthanassiadis-Novas quoted the author of The Frogs, to describe the man who sought to destroy him. Ex-Premier George Papandreou, said Novas, in the words of Aristophanes, was just another demagogue apt for "rousing the mob and terrorizing those who hold contrary opinions." The chorus of frogs was provided by 145 Deputies of Papandreou's (and Novas') Center Union Party, who, instead of croaking brekeke-kex-koax-koax, hooted "Judas!" and "Traitor!" at Novas and his ministers. At the end of the debate...
...books taken was a $35 collection of Greek vase painting: the other was a $25 edition of Maillol...
...grandson of the great man, mounted his first Wagnerian revolution when he took over the Bayreuth Festival 14 years ago, sweeping away the antiquated Teutonic gods, winged helmets and papier-mache shields from the ponderous, four-opera Ring cycle in favor of a treatment as stark and simple as Greek tragedy. Last week Bayreuth audiences were witnessing Wieland's second thoughts and second revolution. He had recast the Ring in the latter-day terms of Jung and Freud. "I wanted to show how many archetypic, primordial, age-old and yet permanently renewing elements of mankind are contained...
...Unterkoefler of Charleston, S.C., met with a delegation from the United Presbyterian Church for a day-long dialogue. Within the past two months, similar meetings have been held with Episcopal and Lutheran representatives, and the commission plans to meet in the future with the National Council of Churches, the Greek Orthodox hierarchy and several more Protestant bodies...