Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John H. Finley '25, a semi-retired professor of Greek, is a veteran theorizer. In one well-known version of his Harvard Worldview, there are arrows (ambitious, motivated types) and teacups (those out to find themselves). In another there were six types--activists, scholars...
...Cavafy loved young men and old cities. He was a Greek homosexual poet from Alexandria with a passport for Olympus. His years were 1863-1933, but he has shown a prodigious gift for outgrowing his death...
...seeking to restore meaningful dialogue between two historic good friends, for the sake of American interests, Greek security, and Cypriot independence. We should succeed because all three are complementary...
...buck private in the Greek army, Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis, 30, serves in style. With Rome sweltering in 91° heat, Andreadis and his bride of three weeks, Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis, 24, turned up in Rome's most luxurious shopping district. After a stop at Valentino's dress shop, they adjourned to Gucci, where Christina bought several leather handbags, and to Battistoni, where Alexander picked out some very civilian silk shirts. Then the pair jumped back into their Rolls-Royce and drove off. "That's one of the problems with the Greek army," reflected a former...
...these two sinuously reasoned essays. He contends that art and democracy feed on each other, because both depend on the play of unfettered minds. At first glance, this seems preposterous; Western art has flourished under monarchies, tyrannies and varied refractions of the Imperial style. But Warren argues that the Greek dramatists and Roman poets created the very concept of free, responsible men that "in an imperfect, stumbling, and ragged way was to become more and more widely available." In the fullness of time, an elitist art helped spawn the rise of the common...