Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playwright Jean Giradoux had a knack for treating heavy philosophical subjects in a light way. In L'Apollo de Bellac, being performed in French at Winthrop House this weekend, it's the classical theme of beauty that's the target. As the play opens, the Greek god Apollo comes to earth with the mission of teaching a woman the secret to any man's heart: Tell him he's handsome, Apollo says; no matter how ugly, any man will believe that. It takes little social consciousness to predict that this open sesamegets the woman into more trouble than she asked...
...source of the word "apocalypse" is the Greek for "revealing the hidden" and not for "destroyed." In his book of essays on The Message In The Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has To Do With The Other, Percy makes a list of new subjects for sociologists to study with catastrophe as a key to human nature...
...keep out all the heathen WASPs they had learned both to envy and despise. But then it all turned sour. With a resigned air, Corry tells the sad story of how Murray's grandchildren finally broke the cozy circle, choosing to marry Fords and Vanderbilts and even a Greek shipping magnate whose name old Tom Murray would never have been able to pronounce, and drifting away from that distinctive brand of Irish Catholicism the good sisters of the Academy of Somebody's Sacred Heart had worked so hard to impress upon them. In the end, the family could claim...
Costakis, nearing his 65th birthday in July, is the son of a Greek tobacco merchant who moved to Moscow before the revolution. He started his collection in 1948 by buying antique Russian silver and paintings by conventional artists. He soon tired of that and shifted to the avantgarde. He had very little money. Even today he earns no more than $8,500 a year as an administrative officer in charge of Russian employees at Moscow's Canadian Embassy. But in the beginning, he recalls, "this kind of art -including Chagall and Kandinsky -was selling at a very low price...
Costakis' plans for the future are not yet settled. He mildly complains of the fatigue of receiving so many visitors, a crowd a day, to his collection: "My wife and children want some peace and quiet, so that's why I'm leaving." Being a Greek national, he is thinking of settling in Greece, but he may also go to the U.S. An astute businessman, he refuses to estimate the value of the paintings that the Ministry of Culture is letting him take out of Russia. (In view of the prices now being paid for major works...