Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John H. Finley Jr. Eliot Professor of Greek Literature and a professor of Hum 1, outlined some of the "special cases" which will require restricted enrollments. The new Hum 4, for example, plans to produce a play at the Loeb as part of its course work, and therefore can accommodate only a limited number of candidates...
ZORBA THE GREEK. Nikos Kazantzakis' novel becomes a roaring parable on life as lived by a wild old goat (Anthony Quinn) and his world-weary playmate (Oscar Winner Lila Kedrova...
This piece of juvenilia was directed by Michael Cacoyannis, who has done better (in The Trojan Women, Zorba the Greek) and knows better. The play's plot and characters are assembled from the Kopit-Albee playmaking kit. Bump's grandfather is the peppery and frustrated duplicate of the grandmother in Edward Albee's The Sandbox. The silent father is a variation on Albee's laconic, spiritless father in The American Dream. Mother is the voracious woman of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, in fright wigs a la Tiny Alice. Lakme wears the little...
Called cryosurgery, from the Greek kryos (cold or frost), the new method actually involves neither ice nor scalpel. The surgeon inserts a thin cannula (tube) that kills offending tissue with liquid nitrogen's intense cold (- 196° C., or 321° below zero F.). Usually no tissue is actually removed, and the body's natural clean-up system removes the debris. Virtually bloodless and almost painless, cryosurgery can be done on patients who remain fully conscious or only lightly anesthetized. In some cases cryosurgery is used only to relieve symptoms, but in others it achieves actual cures. Among...
Back in the early fifties, when Vellucci was running for the Cambridge School Board (he served two terms), a Harvard professor was also in the race. The two met at a dinner at a local Greek club. "This guy got up there, see, and started talking about Demosthenes. The Greek liked that, see," Vellucci recalls. "Well I got up there and I don't know nothing about Demosthenes, so I started talking about Greeks in jobs, Greeks in city jobs. They liked that even better. Vellucci paused...