Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dilution by translation is a problem for any language department and many of them offer courses in English for non-concentrators. Slavic 150 and Professor Jaeger's Greek 10 are outstanding examples: students without a working knowledge of Russian or Greek can still get a good grasp of the two cultures. This is especially important for students of literature, but unfortunately many of them are barred from Romance literatures because they lack the necessary reading knowledge...
...Artists' League of America carefully sized up the world's beauties, brashly issued a list of "The Most Perfect Features." The league's beauties, in order of attributes: forehead -the Duchess of Windsor ("slopes exactly right"); ears-Margaret Truman ("an exact replica of those found in Greek sculpture"); eyes-Princess Margaret ("softness is the test"); nose-Madame Chiang Kai-shek ("the less obtrusive the more perfect"); cheekbones-Jane Russell; lips-Rita Hayworth ("the test lies in the reaction of the opposite sex"); thighs -Esther Williams ("the anomalous combination of firmness and softness"); legs -Linda Darnell ("flawless symmetry...
...Olivier-produced- which are sold out through March. In any one week, ticket holders can see Sir Laurence and his lady in Richard III (produced by John Burrell, who has also been sacked), The School for Scandal, and a modern-dress Antigone, in which Olivier plays a one-man Greek chorus in a dinner jacket...
...certainly surprised at the CRIMSON editorial blaspheming the Latin or Greek reading requirements for House Candidates in English, as out-dated and worthless. The arguments used against the classical requirement are notably distorted: The defense of the requirement is not historical but based on the fact that the peculiar merits and universalities of the Latin and Greek languages are basic to the study of English. Certainly, the classics are excellent training for the serious student of English in vocabulary, Latin and Greek certainly were NOT the only non-scientific fields in the "olden-days", that time "wasted" on languages...
Scholars need Latin and Greek, and any English concentrator who plans to do intensive research in ancient periods will naturally learn these languages. But many students choose more modern times for study, and they will need sociology and economics--not Virgil and Homer. If they want honors, they are forced to spend valuable time on Latin or Greek whether they like it or not, unless their pre-college training has taken care of the requirement. But in the last decade or so, not only has the emphasis on the classics been relaxed in college preparation, but more freshmen are entering...