Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dragons" [Jan. 17] says, "In ancient China, wood was classified as an element, along with air, fire, water and earth." The "five categories" of China are metal, wood, water, fire, earth. Air is not one of the five. Fire, air, water and earth are the four elements of the Greek thinkers. The five categories form an endless cycle: wood giving birth to fire, fire to earth, earth to metal, metal to water, and water to wood again...
...Roman regime and the stories of the Old Testament sickened her with their exultation of cruelty and bad faith. Greek tragedy and the Gospels cheered her with suggestions of how men can deal with his sense of imprisonment by nature and by history. In her last essay, "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force," she goes so far as to challenge Marx, arguing that force, rather than class struggle, is the key to man's fate. And since liberation from these forces is hopeless, she concluded, to deal with "affliction" man must cling to a belief in a Supernatural Good...
...Loeb Mainstage March 3-6 and 9-12, the determined girl who wants to bury her dead brother becomes a symbol for all those who resist repressive regimes. Creon appears not just as a stubborn ruler but as the biggest, most demanding dictator of them all. Even the Greek chorus has a place in Sanchez' stark setting as the journalists and mob who report and intensify the action...
...with a discussion of the Cavafy genealogy, Liddell traces the poet's boyhood in Alexandria, London and Constantinople; his return to Alexandria as a young man; and his attempts to conceal his homosexuality from the Alexandrian society in which his family moved--despite their displacement from the upper-class Greek community to a state of near-impoverishment. The book is to a certain extent a biography of the entire family, for Cavafy (who never married, although he may have had heterosexual affairs in early manhood), lived with his mother until her death, and was in frequent contact with...
...highly satisfactory introduction to Cavafy's life and work. And, by juxtaposing the two studies, one is relieved of Liddell's occasionally tedious scholarly circumspection. Both authors write clearly, although Keeley gets the laurels (as Cavafy would put it) for flowing prose and consummate organization. And, for the non-Greek speaker who has lamented the dearth of any form of scholarship on one of Greece's foremost literary figures, the appearance this fall of both works is gratifying...