Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death only began to go out of style when the belligerents recognized some kind of relationship, as in the case of the Greek city states, which tried to soften their deadly rivalry through diplomacy and mercy. But such temperateness was strictly limited to social equals; Aristotle, who is credited with inventing the term "a just war," could apply it to military action "against men, who, though intended by nature to be governed, will not submit." The Romans took over the idea of a just war as an instrument of efficient administration, and Cicero laid down some pragmatic ground rules. Only...
...credibility gap widens in How I Spent My Summer Vacation, in which a social-climbing bum (Robert Wagner) cadges an Onassis-style cruise of the Greek islands from Multimillionaire Peter Lawford and Daughter Jill St. John. Once aboard, he detects dead fish in Lawford's bullion and bumbles off in search of the source. Lest the implausibility of it all seem unimportant, all traces of wit, style, imagination, intelligence or any other compensation have been carefully expunged. So too in Doomsday Flight, in which it is revealed that a self-pitying psychopath (Edmond O'Brien) has placed...
LOGOS: Don't let it happen again. Vorverständnis is one of my favorites. It means presupposition. Wissenschaft is far better than saying simply discipline or science, and anxiety sounds much deeper if you say Angst. If you grow weary of German, there is always Greek-almost everyone has seen Never on Sunday-with such splendid specimens as kerygma (message of the Scriptures) and agape (divine love...
...Hudson from Manhattan, ninth-graders spend each morning in a year-long humanities sequence that starts with the contemporary world, then shifts back to primitive man, progresses through classical cultures, medieval times, the Renaissance, and returns to today. One recent morning began with a student-prepared exposition of Greek architecture, shown over closed-circuit television in five classrooms. After that, a social-studies class compared the quality of democracy in ancient Greece and in modern-day Mississippi; an art class took up classical sculpture; a philosophy class studied the thought of Socrates; an English class discussed Sophocles' Antigone...
...break with the school's presidential tradition. All five of his predecessors were both Methodist ministers and teetotalers; the son of a Nebraska Lutheran schoolteacher, Christ-Janer was a Presbyterian layman before becoming a Methodist-and he does take a social drink now and then. He majored in Greek at Minnesota's Carleton College, has a law degree from the University of Chicago as well as one in divinity from Yale...