Word: greek
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Despite a decline of 10%-12% in enrollment from last year, Princeton Theological Seminary is practicing a policy of "deliberate upgrading" in scholastic standards; e.g., Greek will be required for admission next fall. And President McCord notes that "the atmosphere on the campus in the '60s is markedly different than in the '50s. Stronger, more mature men and women are entering the seminary. They don't want the phony, superficial forms of religion popular in the '50s. This generation knows it must live in the world, and it is willing to pay the price to find...
Like many Greek tragedies, Philoctetes draws upon the Homeric epos for characters and situations. At the outset, the great Greek archer, Philoctetes, is languishing in a cave on Lemnos, abandoned by his army because of an infected foot. Odysseus and Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, come to Lemnos to persuade Philoctetes to give them the bow of Heracles. Without it, says the seer Helenus, the Greeks will never capture Troy. After many a stratagem and one deus ex machina, all three embark for Troy with the bow. Sophocles artfully balances these three characters so that at one pole Odysseus represents super...
Ultimately, the translation of Greek poetry is a doomed craft, but Torrance succeeds at it remarkably well. His smooth and graceful verse rendering captures Sophocles' sense and most of his imagery. Even the frequent iteration of "wretch that I am" does little to mar the flow of the language. Naturally Torrance loses the melody and complex rhythms of the original; this, of course, was unavoidable in a translation...
...conservative elements among the refugees, this would surely reinforce these tendencies and make matters still worse. Offered a choice between Batista and Castro's proletarian brand of revolution, it is possible that a majority of Cubans would prefer, however reluctantly, to stick with Castro. Eric A. Havelock, Professor of Greek and Latin...
Prescient men have seen it coming, but they have kept their silence in a spirit of filial devotion. The abolition of Greek and Latin entrance requirements, the establishment of Radcliffe and Social Relations--these were received with stunned but obedient submission. Now the time for silence is past; the time has come to speak out, for Harvard's Ages of Gold and Silver are forever gone, and usurping Brass anticks in its vulgar triumph...