Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unexplained postponement of the trial for the murder of George Polk by the Greek government forced his brother, William R. Polk '51, to shelve temporarily plans for his late December flight to Greece...
...Greek character of Oedipus (Swollen or Wounded Foot) has been employed in modern times to illustrate and to symbolize this affliction. There are very sound psychological and biological reasons why the legs should be affected by the relations between a man and his parents, which is the essence, superficially, of the Oedipus situation. The King's stammer is also relevant here, especially in connection with the right foot...
...midweek, Athenagoras I, the magnificently bearded, black-robed Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, strode into the Oval Room to bid an enthusiastic goodbye to his "beloved President" before departing for Istanbul to assume his new post as Ecumenical Patriarch. He kissed the President's forehead...
...Students had to draw and fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance at lectures and recitations. There were few electives; Latin, Greek and mathematics were the solid meat & potatoes of the classical course, and upperclassmen were also fed on rhetoric and mental and moral philosophy...
...science, says Dr. Wiener, has suddenly appeared. It deals with control mechanisms, and Dr. Wiener has personally named it "cybernetics" from a Greek word meaning "steersman." It is growing like a parasitic fungus, drawing on techniques already developed by other sciences, from mathematics to psychology...