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...Early Christianity & the Greek Paideia--Jaeger...
Harvard teachers do not usually celebrate their colleagues in public. Please allow me to break system by commemorating in your columns the life and work of Werner Jaegey. Like many Greeks of old, it befell him to be exiled from his country, and he found in America a homeland which continued to nourish his genius, and to which he gave the full measure of his service and affection. We are all the pearer for his passing. Eric A. Havelock, Professor of Greek and Latin. (Visiting Professor, Princeton University...
...neurotic goof-offs are more amusing than they have any right to be-but the one who should be the funniest of them all is less amusing than he ought to be. The fault in Playwright Gethers' farce lies in its ill-conceived hero, a hulking, preposterously implausible Greek cook named Tomas Agganis (Bill Travers). Actor Travers tries manfully to get a tongue-hold on his role, but what comes out is Basic Choctaw compounded with his Wee Geordie burr. A boyhood brush with the Greek constabulary has left Agganis with the disconcerting habit of kayoing...
...goats' bladders. The resulting buddyhood is so mawkish that most of Act II goes down the sentimental drain. There are two rowdy high spots. At one point, Mr. General's two-star superior (John McGiver) stuns the camp and apoplectrifies himself by Jeeping in on a Greek-styled folk fling, where he finds the cook and Mr. General doing kick-ups (in non-Government-issue evzone skirts and tasseled headgear) to the shrill piping of bouzotiki records. And in Act III there is a court-martial, with the key kooks testifying, that resembles a Marx Brothers movie sequence...
Died. Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 73-benign. German-bred Harvard classicist whose monumental studies of Aristotle and the ideals of ancient Greek culture themselves became classics: of injuries suffered in a fall: in Boston...