Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the Greek idios, own or peculiar, and pathos, disease...
...clay fragments, in papyrus records -the words were everywhere: "Gone." Battered by oppressive taxes and tormented by religious persecution, the Christian Copts (their name comes from an Arab corruption of the Greek word for Egyptian) slipped from the bulging cities of 5th century Egypt into the silent desert, well in advance of the convulsive social earthquakes that rent the New Age from antiquity...
Almost from the start, the Copts rejected the Hellenic way of doing things. Their early life-size statues and full-face portraits are near copies of Greek models, but the cold formality is muted with familiar gestures and folk costumes. As the flight to the desert progressed, their vision became more provincial, and the classicism was discarded. Their sculpture grew smaller and more personal, painting became fragmentary instead of monumental. There is a childlike naivete in the coy games of god and goddess, the paper-doll stare of a saint, the back-patting of Christ and a monk (see color...
...semi-finalists in men's doubles are: Abromson and Jim Wallach, Moore and Rose, and Bob Schrader and C. A. Trypanis. Trypanis is visiting professor of Greek Literature...
...work of an informal committee long interested in establishing a chair in the University for modern Greek studies received a substantial boost this summer when Prof. C.A. Trypanis offered Comp Lit S-174, Modern Greek Literature...