Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Solomon, a kind of pickle-barrel philosopher, is as welcome for comic relief as he is dramatically irrelevant. As he haggles over the value of the furniture, Solomon (Harold Gary) makes wry, mocking comments about the family, marriage, his business competitors, serving as a kind of one-man Yiddish Greek chorus...
...genre that must be underplayed, Williams hokes up the script into near parody. He huffs and puffs doom like an overamplified Greek chorus, and lays on the suspense with all the foot-clumping subtlety of a horror movie...
Existential Vacuum. Since this search is at the intellectual rather than the instinctual level, Dr. Frankl makes great play with words beginning with noo, from the Greek noös (mind), as in noö-dynamics and noögenic neuroses.* He coined logotherapy from logos, usually translated as word, speech or reason, which he defines as "meaning." As Dr. Frankl views the human condition to day, it is distinguished by "the existential vacuum," or "a total lack, or loss, of an ultimate meaning to one's existence that would make life worthwhile...
...Romans, by and large, adopted Greek styles as their own, became the world's first "antique" collectors by buying Grecian art. Workmen throughout the far-flung empire harked back to Periclean models, though the 2nd century Jupiter found in Belgium is Roman in its compact proportions. The Romans' greatest innovation was the realistic portrait, and their skills are powerfully summarized in a fleshy, glowering face, described by Yale Art Historian Sheldon Nodelman as "by far the most important of the Roman bronzes, one of the most striking pieces in the show." Though the portrait has not been formally...
...EXPERIMENTAL: Cut, by Chris Parker, of the University of Iowa, is a difficult abstract work, with no apparent plot or sequence, which talks elliptically of Greek myths and their significance to film makers: "Film is like the snake, the worm Ourobouros, and like all continuous forms can be symbolic of evil." Montages of images cascade across the screen for 21 minutes while Narrator Parker reads the directions from the script ("Medium Shot: Wife on Ferris wheel, seat-five. Close up wife's frightened face . . .") in order to remind viewers that they are watching a film. The chaos is astonishingly...