Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the object it may represent. When a work has this powerful "vitality, we do not connect the word beauty with it. Beauty, in the later Greek or Renaissance sense, is not the aim in my sculpture. -Henry Moore...
...College of Art in London and discovered the primitive sculpture in the British Museum. "I was in a daze of excitement. I would literally float home on the top of an open-deck bus at the end of each visit." He was affected by all-Egyptian, Sumerian. Etruscan, archaic Greek, Norman, Romanesque, and especially by the art of ancient Mexico. One of his first reclining women (1929) is an unabashed descendant of the ancient Mayan Chac-Mool, which Moore saw only as an illustration in a German magazine at the British Museum...
...widowed mother, fearful of "hurtful indulgence," would rouse him from slumber and dip him three times in a tub of frigid water. At the tender age of six, he entered Phillips Academy in Andover, probably since his grandfather had founded it. His academic training consisted of memorizing hymns, Greek and Latin grammar, and attending sermons. Although Quincy described the Puritan restrictions as "wearisome and irksome," he learned them well; he remained a teetotaler and habitually rose...
Entering Harvard at 14, he followed the regular curriculum: "a little Latin and less Greek, and not much mathematics, with a sprinkling of rhetoric, logic, metaphysics, and ethics." At his graduation in 1790, he delivered the English Oration, highest academic honor in the class. His moral character, according to testimony of his classmates, stayed at the same high level...
...Wellesley season wound up with an impressive production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, directed by Athan Karras, a native Greek with considerable experience in his country's great classics. He presented a movingly stylized and austere show, using Gilbert Murray's not too satisfactory translation (Yeats' is no better; there is still need for a truly actable translation). Barry Morse, whose forte is high comedy, made an admirable Oedipus, but he could not plumb the depths of his final scene. Sydney Sturgess was badly miscast as Jocasta; but Ellis Rabb acted as cathartic a Tiresias as one is ever likely...