Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, Orthodoxy shows plenty of spiritual vigor. Many churches in Russia are still crowded on Sundays and great feast days. In the U.S., membership in the dozen Orthodox churches has grown 35% in the past few years to almost 6,000,000 communicants, and Archbishop lakovos, head of the Greek Archdiocese of North and South Amer ica, predicts that the churches will federate within a few years. Even in far-off Uganda, Orthodox missionaries have since 1920 created a thriving, growing church with 20,000 members...
...Greece, most of the 9,000 priests are underpaid and poorly educated, and the bishops seem to be locked in continual battle with Parliament over such jurisdictional problems as the appointment of new metropolitans. But Greek Orthodoxy has also given rise to the impressive Zoe (life) and Sotir (Saviour) brotherhoods-associations of dedicat ed, theologically trained laymen and clergy who each Sunday spread throughout the country preaching evangelical sermons. "We want to create a more fervent Christian life," says Father Giannoulatos, a leader...
...Whiting; Humanities S-115, "Thought and Literature of the Renaissance" with the debonair Walter J. Kaiser; or Philosophy S-185, "Existentialism," a course not given for the past few years during the winter term. Also at this time is a course never offered before, Comparative Literature S-174, "Modern Greek Literature." This could be one of the most exciting courses of the summer, and is given by a visiting Oxfordian, Prof. C. A. Trypanis...
...latest book covers some 40 years of the Punic wars. Characteristically, her two major characters never take part in, or talk about, any of the major battles. They are not attached to either army. For that matter, they are not even Roman or Carthaginian, but a pair of grubby Greek traders...
...Zonas is a man most likely to survive, his friend Dasius is an idealist most unlikely to do so. The restless son of a Roman freedman and a Greek slave, he yearns for the dark freedom of Carthage's Africa, finds it, and loses everything. In time of war, Bryher suggests, it is advisable to make only the smallest demands upon life...