Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critical years of the Russian avantgarde, 1910-25: the work of such artists as Wassily Kandinsky. Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tallin. El Lissitzky, Marc Chagall, Liubov Popova. An official storeroom of officially disapproved art? Not at all: a private collection belonging to a pipe-puffing, guitar-playing Greek named George Costakis...
...notice of the Academic Française. At the age of 83 he died, shortly after composing his last Alexandrine. During the decades between he came to think of himself as Olympic-an apt sobriquet, for Victor Hugo lived life with the vigor and ego of a Greek god. Once, when Hugo was about 80, his teen-age grandson found the old man making love to a young laundress. "Look," said Hugo proudly, "that is what they call genius...
...list of substantive objections to the CRR has become the Greek chorus of the CRR debates, but it is worth repeating, if only as a suggested agenda for the four prospective members...
...first book (and the new volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets), Greek-born Olga Broumas, 27, displays both reckless energy and passion. Her subject is sexual love between women, and her allusions range from the classical goddesses through fairytale heroines to such contemporary poets as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. The poems portray lesbianism as a brave new world, a terrain that women have been tricked (by themselves and men) into avoiding. To the uncertain, Broumas offers a refuge in eroticism...
...existence of "totally unrecorded and unremembered figures in early Christianity who have left absolutely no mark except as the supposed authors of much of its greatest literature." Also, he finds it probable that the Apostles, though Aramaic-speaking peasants, would have been bilingual enough to have written in Greek...