Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sports and faithfully follows 25 minor ones, including such little-played games as field hockey and volleyball. The only sports of any significance that L'Équipe does not cover are horse racing, which it opposes on moral grounds, plus British cricket, U.S. football and baseball, which are Greek to Gallic readers...
...heard of Toomey and Hodge, although they are the two best decathlon men in history. A kind of track meet in miniature, the decathlon is the most searching test of athletic skill and endurance yet devised. But except in Olympic years when it becomes the symbol of the original Greek games, it arouses little passion in the U.S. There won't be another Olympics until 1968; and so in the meantime, Toomey and Hodge have been slogging along, paying their own way to the few track meets in which the decathlon is held, rarely getting a mention...
...theater critic, but since Broadway is currently in its summer doldrums, he is lending his talent to other sections (he was responsible for the recent Essay on the state of the modern theater). His career has been varied and productive. He was born in Maiden, Mass., of Greek parents from Asia Minor, and his first language was Greek. He majored in sociology at Harvard ('42, cum laude) and planned to go to Harvard Law School, but World War II interfered. After 3½ years as an infantryman, mostly in the Pacific (five campaigns, Bronze Star), Kalem turned to another...
...dream of weather control emerged with man from the cave, but for most of humanity's existence it has remained only a dream. Primitive man made sacrifices to the elements, often in human blood, and the Greeks made gods of weather's components: Typhon, Zephyros, Apollo. Beginning with the Greek Philosopher Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.), who correctly surmised that climate was generated by solar radiation, there have been thousands of efforts at influencing weather. Now that man is approaching the stage at which some control is possible, the question is not just how he can exert his influence...
Steps Steeper, Print Smaller. No one has had time to study middle age very much, since it is practically a modern invention, as well as a distinctly American one. Prehistoric man lived about 18 years. The life span of an ancient Greek or Roman averaged out to 33. When friends attempted to dissuade Cato the Younger from committing suicide at 48, he argued that he had already outlived most of his contemporaries. Even as recently as 1900, U.S. life expectancy was less than 50. Thanks to medical advances and high-protein diets, life has lengthened, and it has grown...