Word: greeke
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...studies of the great primates, serves to organize the beasts. In all ages, the human race has used sports to order its social house in virtually every particular of life. English knights jousted for the hand of a lady; Philippine villagers set the boundaries of paddyfields in wrestling matches; Greek city-states staked local pride ("We're No. 1 in the Peloponnesus!") on the laurel-leaf total at Olympia. Wherever and whenever the match, a crowd gathered to be entertained. So the evolution of Super Bowl Sunday was just a matter of time and technology, awaiting the installation of millions...
...appointed Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, Virginia Merlier, assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, and Glen W. Bowersock '57, professor of Greek and Latin, to the committee...
William Rohl Bright's appointment with 1980 began a quarter-century ago. He was running a fancy-foods business, Bright's California Confections, and taking seminary courses on the side. One night, while studying for a Greek exam, he had an "intoxicating" vision: "God showed me the whole world and gave me the confidence that He would use me and others in this generation to reach the multitudes of the world." That was 1951, and since a generation runs 25 years or so, Bright concluded that victory would come...
...does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world, and do more than any other for the uncivilized." The implications of this outlook would lead both to the advocacy of interventionism, as in Edward Everett's 1823 case for supporting the Greek revolution, and isolation, as in William Seward's 1863 rebuttal of requests to oppose Russia's mistreatment of Poland...
...moviemaking in Montreal, Actress Sophia Loren, 42, has a new role as a grandma−or at least a step-grandmother to husband Carlo Ponti's first grandchild. Loren's work in Montreal involved family matters of a different kind. In Angela, a modern version of the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, she plays a restaurant waitress who loses her infant son to Mafia kidnapers. Years later, the long-lost lad, played by Steve Railsback, 30, accidentally meets up with Mom and, presto, some Oedipal complexities develop. Sophia can only hope she will avoid such problems...