Word: greeke
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Coggan is not considered in Ramsey's league as an intellectual, but he has excellent credentials. He earned a double first at Cambridge, has written nine books and coordinated the translation of the New English Bible from Greek and Hebrew. A teacher of Semitic languages, he once responded graciously to an introduction by a Jewish lord mayor of London with a discourse in Hebrew. Bespectacled and gray-haired, Coggan has a quietly appealing air of informality; he is as open and relaxed as Ramsey is reserved. A family man (two daughters, one a teacher in England, the other...
PIRSIG IS unabashed and maybe naive in his echoes and borrowings. He mines ideas, allusions, archetypes and symbols not only from Zen, but from Greek, German and Christian mythology, from films and novels of the American Road and from the scores of scientists and philosophers who populate his "talks." After setting Aristotle in a historical context he inserts him into American experience by likening the philosopher to a "third-rate technical instructor, naming everything, showing the relationships among the things named, cleverly inventing an occasional new relationship... and then waiting for the bell so he can get on to repeat...
...case of overreach for which those who would be like gods must be punished. And, in fact, whether these 17 reprinted tales (first collected in 1957) take place in Mrs. Lessing's own southern Africa or London or Paris, the settings are harsh and foreboding enough for Greek tragedy...
Color attacks us from all angles. It mixes up perceptions with optical illusions; it stops cars; it provokes prejudice; sometimes it even inspires patriotism. But throughout the struggle to define it echo the words of an obscure fifth-century B.C. Greek philosopher who said, "By convention there is color, but in reality there are atoms and space...
Many very Greek things are maintained in this play. Instrumental music is supplied by a single flutist, Vivian Ducat, as was done in Athens. There are no set changes and scenery is kept to a minimum. Most importantly, the language is maintained so that when we hear a rush of flowing Greek words, we know instinctively what they mean in a way that could not be reproduced by any other words...