Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time he was in college, physics was in fascinating chaos. Blow after blow had shattered its foundations: Albert Einstein proved that matter is energy, Max Planck proved that energy comes in indivisible packets he called quanta. Lord Rutherford proved that though the very name atom means "indivisible" in Greek, atoms are not indivisible. Nothing seemed certain. One physicist declared that all students should be warned: "Caution! Dangerous structure! Closed for reconstruction...
...brigands." He relates a meeting with Emily Hart, the 22-year-old protegee of Quinquagenarian Sir William Hamilton, then English ambassador to Naples. Emily, who later became Lady Hamilton, and still later helped Nelson win the Battle of Trafalgar, used to sashay around her villa swathed in clinging Greek robes. "Our fair entertainer seems to me, frankly, a dull creature," Goethe reports, adding judicially, "Perhaps her figure makes...
Phaedra. Melina Mercouri purrs, snarls and shrieks in this modern-day version of an old Greek myth. Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onas sisism. Only Tony Perkins seems somewhat less than believable as Vallone's stepson...
Progress has always been the great bulldozer, demolishing Greek temples for paving stones and palace walls for slums. How in the New World is the graceful Georgian mansion to withstand the shopping center, or the columned grandeur of Pennsylvania Station to prevail against the flat, glass-curtain wall...
Well done my golden warriors, my Greek gods" Master John H. Finley cheered yesterday afternoon as the Eliot House football team crushed Leverett, 22-8, to win the House Football League championship...