Word: greeke
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Classes offered in the fall of 1946 included an analysis of "classic texts from Homer to Shakespeare as the sources of a tradition in Western thought," a look at Greek epics and a survey of the evolution of the novel "from Don Quixote to War and Peace," according to Crimson articles on the subject...
...inner-city high school hadn't been big on organized sports. I don't think it actually had any (though it did offer Latin and Greek). But I loved physical activity, and Harvard offered an undreamed-of variety of channels for it. I sampled as many as I could. I went to boxing and wrestling classes and swam in the Indoor Athletic Building, played intramural football (we had full uniforms and our own coach!), learned to play squash and rowed regularly on the Charles...
...called from a pay phone, and Dole asked him to take a shot at writing a resignation statement. For the next few weeks the two talked every couple of days, with Helprin faxing Dole versions of the speech. Helprin came up with the allusion to Antaeus, the giant in Greek mythology whose strength was replenished when he touched ground. Dole liked that. But there was much he didn't like. They went over the speech word by word at least a dozen times. Editor Dole, Helprin says, had "the compression...
...Building to Institution Building: The Development of Gender Equality Policy in the European Union"; Chimene I. Keitner '96 for "Revamping the Salome Myth: The Femme Fatalle and Sexual Power in Rachilde"; Thaddeus B. Kousser '96 for "'Treating' the Poor"; Alexander G. Kozak '96 for "The Myth of Hypsipyle in Greek and Roman Poetry"; and David B. Lat '96 for "Language and the Land: The Building of Community in Philippine Postcolonial Anglophone Literature...
Tserotas' father, an immigrant, did not finish high school and works more than 60 hours per week as a cook in a Greek restaurant...