Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...premeditated prize-seeker, the Bowdoin Prizes offer remuneration for creativity in three different languages. A winning essay in English on any subject is worth $600. Prizes of $300 are offered for original essays in Latin and Greek. In addition, the best translation into Attic Greek of R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, from Page 21 ("The ardour with which the Greeks. . .") to page 23 ("The points of danger in the rhythms now going on.") wins...
...statesmen, politicians, and poets seldom lead their commencement processions. Most Harvard prize winners grow up to be professors, many of them professors at Harvard. John H. Finley, Jr. '25 won $250 for a Bowdoin essay on "Euripides and Shaw Compared." Mason Hammond '25 won $50 apiece for translations in Greek and Latin. Clarence Crane Brinton '19 won an Elizabeth Wilder Prize in 1916, made to a Freshman in need of financial aid who receive the highest mark on a German A or B exam. Brinton, like Louis Hartz '40 and Leonard K. Nash '39 won deturs, prizes of books awarded...
...Carvalho's latest "something" left mouths open, if not ears. What was it? The U.S. premiere of Greek Composer Yannis Xenakis' Strategic for Two Orchestras and Two Conductors, in which two orchestras get to play segments of the same score at the same time (though not the same segments) to find out which one comes closest to the composer's intent...
...world premiere at Milan's La Scala. Musically, the work was something of a dud-somber, repetitive, unnecessarily difficult to sing. But as exciting theater, the bloodthirsty Agamemnon legend is hard to beat, and Wallmann did not try: instead she moved her chorus in a plastic combination of Greek tragedy and modern ballet, guided Star Soprano Clara Petrella in a performance of icy majesty, and won unanimous critical acclaim for what Milan's Corriere d'Informazione called "a stupendous visual WESTRICH spectacle, austere, but graced with Wallmann's customary taste and knowledge...
There still are those who adhere to the permanence of cast metal. Michael Ayrton, 44, has painted for 29 years, but Moore got him to sculpt as well. Impassioned by Greek mythology, he wonders "what happens when you are partly animal and want to become wholly human." He makes his misshapen minotaurs, therefore, into symbols for man's stressful present. Bernard Meadows, 50, who assisted Moore from 1936 to 1939, also produces bronzes suggestive of figures withdrawn into abstraction. Tough, crablike carapaces cover highly polished softer forms like defenses for a vulnerable humanity...