Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presenting the themes of his coming lectures, Schrade stressed Greek thought as "the spring of all that was to come" in the history of tragic art. Music and tragedy were one in Greek art; later civilizations annuled this marriage, allowing each to take its own course. But Schrade said that "no humanistic effort could afford its restoration," and, indeed, music drama's attempt was "more imaginary than real...
...impossibility of later uniting music and tragedy under the Greek model, he noted, lay in the ancient idea of fate. Men saw necessity no longer springing from the god Dionysus, but from passion itself; and "with our theme being thus completely recast, it comes to face different considerations." Music then became important to tragedy because its "rhetorics" are "surely the most intimate consort to the presentation of the passions...
Razing Walls. While the Common Market has given challenge and impetus to Greek businessmen, they admittedly face some stern readjustments in their cherished protectionist attitude. Greek tariff walls, rising as high as 280%, have created what one top Greek economist, finding a Greek-originated word for it, calls a "prophylactic economy." The Greek rendezvous with Common Market free trade and industrialization is a unique experiment, with perils and promise. Says Banker John Pesmazoglu, Greece's Common Market negotiator: "What our treaty amounts to is a test case for the Common Market and for the free world. Greece must...
...writes mostly of quasi-biographical works on great scientists in every important century. Other reviews are grouped into two sections dealing with subjects in a specific historical setting. One treats of Greek education in antiquity, early Chinese civilization, and other pre-Newtonian subjects. The other slips into a discussion of specifically modern crises and attitudes in science; Pascal and Maxwell give way to Bohm, Schrodinger, and Charles Darwin A long and careful piece on Einstein near the end of the first volume signals the shift from traditional to contemporary concerns. At the close of the second is a melange...
...follows these with a group of intriguing reviews on Pascal, Mill, Wittgenstein, and others of more sensibility than science. The discussion of The Age of Analysis picks up Morton White's rewarding distinction between the "hedgehogs" and "foxes" of twentieth-century philosophy (taken from the Greek poet Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing...