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...Astronomy has gone through this metamorphosis. Look at the Greek astronomers,” says Lauren M. Weiss ’10, a STAHR officer. “They were just ordinary people who looked into the sky to try to understand it...But as science, and especially physics, has advanced, astronomy has too. Now to be an astronomer, it takes years to understand what is going on in the universe. This is unsatisfying to the average person, who looks up to the sky, wonders, and is truly inspired...
...Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger.” Enthusiastic reception notwithstanding, however, the “local color” in which these books traffic reduces perceptions of the region to little more than cartoonish, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”-esque stereotypes.Harsh? Perhaps. Yet the breach between the possibilities for “diaspora” fiction and the lackluster reality is disappointingly vast. To pull a book from the shelf at random, take Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie’s 2002 “Salt and Saffron...
There’s nothing inherently modern about John Eccles “Semele.” Written at the beginning of the 18th century, the Baroque opera narrates an Ancient Greek myth about a mortal protagonist whose jealousy for her divine lover costs her her life. But Harvard Early Music Society’s production of “Semele,” which ran this past weekend at the New College Theatre, manages to spruce up the antiquated setting quite a bit, perhaps predictably arranging the action in America’s own period of mythical free love...
...wake of World War II, the relay took on more peaceful overtones. For the 1948 Summer Games in London, the relay's first runner, a Greek army corporal, symbolically removed his military uniform before setting off. Four years later, the first torch relay for Oslo's Winter Olympics started in Morgedal, Norway, the birthplace of skiing pioneer Sondre Norheim. That relay also featured the torch's first trip in an airplane. (For the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, the torch got an upgrade, flying from Athens to Paris on the famed Concorde...
...myth is typically Greek, but it’s moral is hardly ancient. “The way Semele expresses her dissatisfaction with the relationship and the way Jupiter responds to that could happen in any age,” says music director Julia S. Carey...