Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern writer resist returning to the Greek myths to explore their endless, labyrinthine paths and to remap their ambiguous meanings into the maze of the twentieth century? The myths are so rich in tragedy, epic lives, passionate ideals, saturnalian revelry, and comic twists of fate that they beg for modernization. Claiming such undertakings to be bastardizations, staid classicists might curse the lack of inspiration, the sterility of these transformations. "Myths," said Camus, "are made for the imagination to breathe life into them." John Gardner's epic poem, Jason amd Medeia shows that the modern imagination, violently panting while it makes...
Daring Required. Sometimes that is a difficult task. Weese went to Louisville to save a small bank that he describes as "one of the nation's most sophisticated examples of Greek Revival style." By building a new auditorium and stage between the bank and an old warehouse on a rear lot, he turned the complex into a theater. Residents of Montgomery, Ala., called Weese to save the classical pre-Civil War state capitol from legislators who want a new building. He has proposed new lighting and air conditioning and a refurbishing of the gracious old details, down...
...battle over the literal "inerrancy" of the Bible has been shaping up ever since 1969, when a grass-roots alliance of conservatives succeeded in electing the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus as president of the denomination. Preus, a former professor of Greek and Latin as well as Scripture, is no simple fundamentalist; like other orthodox Missouri Synod theologians, he believes that some parts of the Bible are poetic or symbolic-such as the Book of Revelation. But he also believes that what the Bible presents as factual is factual, and he holds what could be called a theological domino theory...
...about how his movie was a modern Candide. He called it naturalist cinema and a whole lot of other intellectual chicken shit. What really killed me was when he called this god awful mediocre rock and roll band that strikes up about every ten minutes through the movie a Greek chorus, for chrissake. Seemed to me like this McDowell character had been taken in by somebody. Rock records for hippies. Posters for movie groupies. Candide for the high-brows...
...also attached his property and bank accounts. After he was sent to jail, he had to fall back on some formidable intellectual assets. In addition to having a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Basel, he has studied philosophy with Karl Jaspers and is a scholar of ancient Greek...