Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...female actresses should excell in this production. Julia Gilbert, as Helen, conveys the beauty of the language as well as the comic, romantic and semi-tragic sides of her personality. The cast as a whole--and particularly Gilbert and Ann Bailen, as the portress--pay careful attention to the Greek meters and rhythm, which speed up or slow down, depending on the feeling the poet wishes to express. The cast manages to convey the plot to the non-Greek audience, and more often than not we are moved by Helen and her plight...
...UNDERSTAND Greek tragic drama, it is necessary to understand tragic poetry, not individual Greek words. The total composition of words gives intensity of thought and feeling to the work. This emotion is impossible to translate into any other language and is better communicated in the poet's native tongue. On these grounds, the Loeb Ex can justify its current production of Euripedes' Helen, performed in Attic Greek for a predominantly non-Greek speaking audience...
...thing and our people will be on the--" Helen is by Mr. Euripides, who a colleague of Richard Nixon on the Un-American Activities once cited for spreading communist propaganda. Classics-minded sources tell me this play is pretty misogynist, however, and it's being done in the original Greek, which should minimize its danger. I will not quote the relevant line from Julius Caesar. Tonight till Saturday, 7:30 at the Loeb...
Along with their loss of freedoms, Greeks under the new regime continue to suffer from the economic decline that started while Papadopoulos was in power. Inflation is running at an annual rate of 35%; the price of gasoline ($2.50 per gal.) is the highest in Europe, and olive oil, a Greek staple, costs nearly twice ($2 a liter) what it did last year...
...been revived, and there is a new argument over Turkish rights to drill for oil in the Aegean. Relations with the U.S. are also clouded. Last year, aware that the mood of the U.S. Congress was to cut off the 1973 grant of $15 million in military aid, the Greek government on its own eliminated it. Junta leaders, who have given up their American limousines in favor of Mercedes-Benzes, have blocked the U.S. Navy's plans to home-port a Sixth Fleet aircraft carrier in Greece. The Navy had already shifted other ships there, but the Greeks protested...