Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the past half century Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, has built up an extraordinary reputation as one of the most active centers of ancient Greek study in the country. The prime stimulus was Miss Mabel Whiteside, who functioned as a local Thalia, Melpomene and Terpsichore rolled into one. She had her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty...
...Jeannette Hume has a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this makes more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...spasmodic English narration is not always satisfactory. In the Agamemnon portion particularly, the narrative is simply superimposed on the dialogue, with the result that one cannot understand either the Greek or the English. At other times the Greek is momentarily faded out. I think a better solution (if a narrative was necessary at all) would have been to present an English summary at the start of each play and then let the drama go right through in uninterrupted Greek...
...first 65 years, Washington's collection was nothing to show anyone. Founded in 1879, it consisted mainly of odds and ends cast off by Missourians: embossed beer tankards, a Greek vase collection, a marble mountain nymph by a local artist (now in a university library and known to undergraduates as "the White Rock Girl"). Then, in 1945, Curator Horst W. Janson, aided by a committee, weeded out 125 paintings and 500 pieces of bric-a-brac, auctioned off the lot for $40,000. The money was used to purchase 28 paintings, sculptures, collages and tapestries by Picasso, Braque, Moore...
...Catholicism that acknowledge the Pope as head of the church but have their own non-Latin customs and liturgies. Ruthenian Catholics, for example, use a Byzantine liturgy identical to that followed by Eastern Orthodox Christians who are not in union with Rome, and which is traditionally celebrated in Hungarian, Greek or Old Slavonic. In the U.S., there are about 600,000 Eastern-rite Catholics. For many of them, their church is a God-given way of maintaining nostalgic ties with their homelands in Eastern Europe and Russia. But their peculiar ways of worship, puzzling and mysterious to most Latin-rite...