Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first journey Barnabas and Paul left Antioch together to carry the Gospel to other cities of the Greek world. At Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, they were invited to preach before the Roman proconsul, Sergius Paulus, whose court magician set to heckling the two missionaries. At that, Paul turned on the man and denounced him so eloquently that Proconsul Paulus was converted, and his magician, according to Acts, went blind. After that encounter, Paul seems to have changed his name to its Roman form and become leader of the mission; the author of Acts begins to refer to Paul...
Neither Jew nor Greek. Superficially, the first Christians seemed to be a sect of Judaism. Under the leadership of James, the brother of Jesus, the community in Jerusalem waited quietly for the end of the world, worshiping and sacrificing in the Temple, observing the fast and feast days and the stringencies of the Torah. Most of their converts were Jews; as for the Gentiles, it was understood that no man could be a Christian without first being a Jew-which meant circumcision and obedience to the dietary laws...
Paul had gone a long way toward establishing that in the new faith "there is neither Jew nor Greek ... Ye are all one in Christ Jesus...
...dress was copied everywhere. Women tried to behave like his heroines, and competed for symbol status as his bedmates. Intellectuals, of course, were the main victims of D'Annunzio's style, which according to Rhodes was "like that of Venetian glass, redundant and stuffed with reminiscences of Greek and Roman splendor. pseudo-Biblical, pseudomystical." A whole generation of Italian youth accepted his vision of life as an opera with bogus lyrics but real swords. Filippo Marinetti, founder and chief exhibitionist of the crackpot futurist cult (he later proposed kidnaping Pope Benedict XV in an airplane and dropping...
...into Cambridge, distinguished himself by playing jazz piano in a nightclub called the "Blue Peter." At 18, he wrote his first novel, Pied Pipers of Lovers, a dismal flop. To rip off his "cultural swaddling clothes," Durrell fled to Europe, and in the early '305 settled on the Greek island of Corfu. There, Larry learned Greek and discovered a literary foster father, Henry Miller...