Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version is slangy, a bit hammy in spots, and not likely to strain the minds of readers. Highet hopes that it would have pleased Menander, "who loved people, like Shakespeare and Moliere. and so transformed Greek comedy from its original fantasy into reality...
...literary discovery since the Renaissance, crows Horizon about an exclusive story in its July issue. Readers with a classical bent or those who merely like a yarn about the farmer's daughter are unlikely to argue. The story is the first English translation in poetry of The Curmudgeon (Greek: ∆σνκολς), written in 316 B.C. by the Greek Playwright Menander, whose 100-odd comedies were outranked in the ancient world only by those of Aristophanes. Out of Egypt. Even more intriguing. The Curmudgeon is the first complete play by Menander discovered by the modem...
...near the farmer's shack; their animal "sacrifices" always turn out to be raucous sheep barbecues with only the bones left for Pan. Horizon's translator (and chief editorial adviser) is Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet, the lively author (The Art of Teaching) and classicist who teaches Greek and Latin at Columbia University. It took him a week to translate the play's six-beat Greek iambics into six-beat English iambics...
Soma is also the Greek word for body. Last week, in a Manhattan skyscraper, Dr. Frank Berger, research director of New Jersey's Wallace Laboratories, announced that his firm was beginning to market a new wonder drug-comparable, he hoped, in its effects on the body, to his earlier discovery, meprobamate (Miltown, Equanil), in its effects on the mind. The new tablet is a powerful muscle relaxant with some unusual painkilling qualities. Tried on more than 1,400 patients for almost two years, it has proved effective for many kinds of pain in the muscles and around joints-charley...
Swedish granite originally designed for Manhattan's Lever House (the budget ran out) and a torchlike form in Greek marble, planned as a 30-ft, focal point for the International Arrivals building at Idlewild Airport (the New York Port Authority turned it down). Often, Noguchi complains, "architects want something that is timely. I want to get back to the real problem of sculpture and do something timeless...