Word: greekness
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...hero's metaphysical underpinnings have been giving way for centuries. Professor George M. Harper of the University of North Carolina points out that "the Greek and Shakespearean concept of the hero as an essentially noble man created in the image of his Creator and sharing his attributes is no longer possible." The decline began, Harper suggests, with Copernicus and Galileo, who demonstrated that the earth was not the center of the universe and that man is therefore not the center of creation. Darwin described man as a pawn of evolution, Freud as a puppet of the unconscious, Marx...
EDUCATION this week runs the second installment of "Kudos" (from the Greek noun for glory; it's singular, not plural), an annual feature in TIME since 1925. Two staff members also received degrees: Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer, an L.H.D. from New York's Wagner College, and the publisher of TIME, an LL.D. from Vermont's St. Michael's College, with the citation: "Behold the whole huge world wrapped each week in red-bordered paper...
...less accurate name for the degenerative joint disease that can be recognized in fossils of reptiles that died 100 million years ago and in the remains of Stone Age man. In ancient Egypt, the disease was no more a respecter of Pharaohs than it is of Presidents today. The Greeks supplied one name, arthritis (from arthron, joint, and itis, inflammation), but most victims of so-called arthritic conditions, like Ike, have little or no inflammation. More recent and precise terms are arthrosis and osteoarthrosis. Medieval physicians adopted another Greek term, rheumatikos (from rheuma, flow), because they thought the conditions resulted...
Archbishop lakovos, LL.D., Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Americas. As a professor of future priests, he taught them to replace polemics with irenics and isolation with collaboration...
...whims and interests, one of A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford's most earnest pursuits is graphology. Few persons, from financiers to fiancees, ever get close to Hartford without passing his handwriting test. Most of all, he likes perfectionists -people who make their d's Greek-style, from the bottom up after an initial downstroke. Yet as a businessman, Hartford sometimes works from the top down. He has emptied treasure into such disparate ventures as Show magazine (sold for a $7,000,000 loss), Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art (annual deficit: $580,000), an automated parking garage...