Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change either the nature or the task of art, though it may change expression." However, he said while it is conceivable that the Einsteinian universe is gradually altering the way art conceives of time and space, similar conceptions were an element in French medieval drama, early Christian art, or Greek vase paintings...
...Reader Barth recall that the owl is a symbol of Greek Goddess Athena, goddess of wisdom...
...that we in this country continue to use the terms "bookworms" for bright children and "owlish" when they happen to wear glasses? In Europe, exceptionally bright individuals are portrayed as similar to Greek gods, perfect in mind and body. Unless we stop tagging our intelligent youngsters so unfavorably, they will continue to be afraid to show their superior intelligence in school...
...great classicist Jacques Louis David. But while David's figures remained solid and heroic, those of Ingres soon became pliant and touched with elegance. David took his inspiration from ancient Rome, and painted frequently from Roman statues. Ingres was struck by the Italian Renaissance primitives, by early Greek and Etruscan art, and above all by Raphael, who so gracefully bridged the worlds of the natural and the ideal. Because of his admiration for the primitives, the Davidians denounced him for returning "to the childhood of nature...
Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, and Zeph Stewart, associate professor of Greek and Latin, have supported the abolition of Sophomore Standing as advocated in the recent report by the Student Council Committee on Educational Policy...