Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oddly, scandal and trash may sometimes be transformed upward. Mere sleaze may blossom into art. Greek tragedy told stories more lurid than afternoon television does. (Next Jerry Springer: "Guys who murdered their fathers and married their mothers.") The tale of Mary Letourneau and the boy Vili even begins to touch us now with a certain screwball Romeo-and-Juliet poignancy. There's an interesting humanity in the tale, an aberrance with something almost sweet about...
...such success obtained at a school with worse athletics than any Ivy League university? Through the fraternities running the events. All of them flew their Greek letters above their post, and each tried to outdo the others so their station would be the most popular. Since the social life at my friends' school revolves around these fraternities, the event was both fun and well-attended...
...food vendors are supposed to bringsomething to campus that the students don'tusually have, such as Greek food or homemade icecream," Cipriano says...
...more recent step has been to explore the medical properties of herbs and botanical extracts. Although modern Western medicine has only recently come to embrace the medicinal potential of herbs and botanical extracts, the fifth century Greek physician Hippocrates, considered the father of Western medicine, was the first to suggest this possibility. Hippocrates believed deeply in the healing power of nature. A strong advocate of the restorative powers of natural herbs, he once wrote, "Nature is the physician of diseases." This historical context attests to the long-term appeal alternative medical theory has had even to traditional biomedicine...
DIED. ARCHBISHOP SERAPHIM, 84, stormy head of the Greek Orthodox Church since 1974 who boldly crusaded against the state in the 1980s, excommunicating seven government officials for trying to expropriate the church's vast land holdings; in Athens...