Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rockets raining on Italy's orange groves if war came; he had also included Britain in his target area, and now, to the mocking laughter of the satellite sycophants around him, said, "As you know, the roar of the British lion does not terrify anyone anymore." To the Greek ambassador in Moscow, Nikita declared, "My military people would have no mercy on the olive orchards of Greece or even the Acropolis!'' To accomplish his task, he boasted at another party (the welcome down celebration for Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov) that Russian scientists now knew...
...arranging 250,000 index cards in a nightmare game of "philological solitaire." Had he used a computer, Allen could have done the job in twelve hours. So says Classicist James T. McDonough Jr., 27, of Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, who uses modern electronics to analyze Greek metrics. McDonough has done as much for Homer, and as a consequence of this odd work he can almost definitely answer an old scholarly question: Did one man or many men write the Iliad...
...Boston-born product of Boston College High School, where Jesuits douse the lads in Greek and Latin, McDonough at first aimed for M.I.T. and physical chemistry. Instead, the classics lured him to Boston College, where he was hooked on Greek poetry by the Rev. Carl J. Thayer, S.J., an inspired teacher whose students habitually sweep national Greek sight-reading contests. On top of that, McDonough worked one summer in a Boston insurance company office, where he discovered the talents of computers...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright has been dead for two years, but monuments to his originality are still going up. Now another of his last major buildings-the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation*at Wauwatosa (outside Milwaukee)-is all but finished, and sightseers as well as worshipers are crowding...
...Greek has a better right to raid Greek tragedy? Kay Cicellis (Ten Seconds from Now), a Greek who writes the kind of English most English writers might envy (she learned the language as a child), rifles not so much the stories as the emotional climate of Sophocles. Her stories have modern settings, and the characters have none of the outer dignity and exalted station that were theirs on the ancient Greek stage. But the author proves brilliantly that heart and character can still forge chains as shackling as those of 23 centuries...