Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel itself in water, space density, surrounded by all the natural objects this human being on the state creates with the aid of silence and fiction. It is an art of illusion, but it does not permit any trickery. The gestures must be pure, true and comprehensible. The Greek dramatist Lucian wrote: "The mime who is guilty of a false gesture commits a solecism with the hand...
From Pheidippides and his fatal journey to Athens bringing news of the Greek victory at Marathon, to four long distance runners from a small all-male school of 1974, there is not so great a difference, actually...
...Reining and Claude Goldenburg wrap up the All-Ivy teams. Reinig, sometimes known as "Jiminy the Greek," is noted for the spectacularly accurate predictions in his column in The Crimson as well as his baseball coverage. Goldenburg was named for his accounts of the Princeton co-champion squash team...
...same time is an attractive idea to Southerners because it implies having a unified, romantic world-view, where the things that govern men are the same things that govern poetry and nature. With this way of looking at the world, Percy could write about politics in one sentence, Greek drama in the next, and "the savage nature and austere beauty of the river" after that...
Like ancient Greek sculptors, Giacometti sometimes painted his pieces as well - not in primary hues, but in a range of pinky grays and dirty skin colors that recall the primal dust of his own studio. This, too, makes them less approachable. One cannot easily imagine fondling a Giacometti. It would not feel good, and in any case the thing always seems too far away. It was the use of distance, both real and implied, to disclose meaning that gave Giacometti's work so much of its aloof, hieratic tension...