Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English essay competition offers three prizes of $600, $400, and $150 to undergraduates, and three prizes of $500 each to graduate students. The Classics competition gives two awards of $150 each to undergraduates for translations into Greek and Latin, and two prizes of $300 each to graduates for original essays in Greek and Latin...
Koestler has no patience with the self-deprecating habit of contrasting a contemplative, spiritual East with a crass, materialistic West. The difference, he says, is not between spirituality and materialism but between Western philosophy-love of wisdom-and Eastern "philousia" (from the Greek word ousia, meaning essential Being), which "prefers intuition to reason, symbols to concepts, self-realization through the annihilation of the ego to self-realization through the unfolding of individuality...
...reroast of an old chestnut-the tale of reformer being reformed himself by a warmhearted prostitute-ends up a savory satire full of animal spirits and earthy humor. Director Jules (He Who Must Die) Dassin also plays the overgrown American boy scout, opposite mercurial Melina Mercouri's invincible Greek strumpet...
Human & Divine. The Eastern gods were dark, ponderous, absolute. The Greeks challenged this authoritarianism with the restless spirit of inquiry. Against the hierarchy of the absolute, they set up "the prestige of the imaginary"-man's loftiest ideals fashioned in art. "The sacred was replaced by the sublime, the supernatural by the wondrous, and Fate itself by tragedy." Critics who believe that Greek sculptors were trying to achieve representational realism earn Malraux's ire. "Humanized but not human," a figure like the Winged Victory of Samothrace is no mere woman to Malraux, but an evocation of that "spark...
Never on Sunday. A rambunctious little politico-philosophical fable about the Virtuous Whore and the Quiet American, who meet and educate each other in an earthy Greek setting. Directed by Jules (He Who Must Die) Dassin and starring Melina Mercouri, Hellenism's latest triumphant incarnation...