Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rock Garden, by Nikos Kazantzakis. In this transparently autobiographical novel, the great Greek poet-novelist describes a 1936 trip to the Orient, where he saw with depression but grudging admiration "a new human type" emerging against the ancient beauties, as the Japanese girded...
...Rodin, a Calder stabile, or a 23-ft.-long carved crocodile from New Guinea. And he sometimes exhibits things just to keep Houston up to date with the latest fads. Last week, in the big hall designed by Mies van der Rohe that forms a wing of the original Greek revival building, he was showing something called Gorgo in New York-a papier-mache dinosaur walking over a city of toy cars and trains, a papier-mache serpent crushing a rocking horse, plus gears of a clock, a half-full milk carton, a pot of roses. It was made...
...behind the austere desks of Widener Library, studying. The silence is stunning. What if someone grew excited about his work, and spoke out loudly? But we are here to read, to transfer the contents of various books to our various minds: an African studies Shakespeare, a Jew is learning Greek, a bearded old man scans John Updike's latest novel; I, whose ancestors migrated to Indiana during the Civil War, am reading American Colonial history...
...family whose son had graduated splendidly from Harvard College wept for days and then was persuaded to do something to commemorate his brief passage. "On Widener Library you shall maintain your University." The silence there is stunning. The African studies his Shakespeare. The Jew goes on with his Greek. Shall we ever learn what we need to know...
John H. Finley, Jr., Eliot Professor of Greek Literature and Master of Eliot House...