Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago, in addition to its functions as a meeting place for Catholic students, it became a regular school, with day classes on Holy Scriputre, philosophy, Church History, Greek, Latin, and other subjects...
...between Bulgaria and Albania (both loyal to Stalin), and provide a base from which well-organized Macedonian terrorists would try to foment rebellion within Tito's Yugoslavia. Last month the Communist Macedonian Peoples' Liberation front called for a "struggle to free the Macedonian people from Yugoslav and Greek domination." The Cominform's long-range goal was common knowledge, even in Belgrade: dismemberment of Yugoslavia into "sovereign" republics which would become part of a larger Balkan federation, probably headed by Bulgaria's Georgi Dimitrov...
Robinson Jeffers, American poet and anther has written a new version of Enripides' "Medea" and has made the Greek tragedy excellent modern theater fare. This is quite an accomplishment, but the success is not all Mr. Jeffers', nor did he intend it so. The "free adaptation" was written expressly for Judith Anderson. Mr. Jeffers has done double service to the theater in giving it an actable version of "Medea" and giving Miss Anderson an opportunity to make theater history...
There is no really fine verse in this adaptation and it offers on scholastic threat to the Euripides-Gilbert Murray success team. But Jeffers has reduced to a minimum the hard demands put upon an audience by a Greek tragedy; the number of mythological allusions and images is small and the diction is tuned for modern ears. It's a pity that the writer, who has a good sense of dramatic values, has no lyrical gift. Mr. Jeffers has had theater greatness thrust upon him by Miss Anderson...
Polk, with Constantine Poulos of The Nation, took off from LaGuardia Field Tuesday. He does not expect to return to this country before May. The trial, originally scheduled for early January, was unexpectedly postponed until tomorrow by the Greek government...