Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prose play Prometheus Bound, produced this month at the Yale School of Drama, is not so much drama as an oratorio streaked with images of visceral intensity, as exemplified in the paintings of his friend, Artist Sidney Nolan (see color pages). The play is a loose adaptation of the Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, but Lowell has typically given it a punishing contemporaneity. A parable of human pride and torment, it becomes all the more poignant with the realization that Lowell himself is a man riven by deep conflicts...
...theological schools in England and Germany. He is an expert in canon law, with 90 published works to his credit, has a doctorate in divinity from the University of Athens. After World War II, he came to Queen Frederika's attention by leading a movement to repatriate Greek children who had been kidnaped by Communist guerrillas. In 1949, the royal family named him palace chaplain...
Byzantine Bickering. Arriving at Athens' Metropolis Cathedral for the enthronement ceremony, the new primate was wildly cheered by crowds shouting "Axios! Axios! [Worthy! Worthy!]." In his installation address, he pledged a sweeping reformation for the Greek church. Referring to moral scandals that have rocked the hierarchy, he vowed to "purge the church of its unworthy ministers." He also noted that two-thirds of the nation's 9,000 priests have only a sixth-grade education or less. To attract better qualified clergy, he promised to increase priests' salaries (which currently range as low as $32.70 a month...
Gift from Constantinople. The most striking aspect of leronymos' proposed reformation was his avowed willingness to improve relations between the Greek church and its titular overseer, Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople. Greece's archconservative hierarchy has long been at odds with Athenagoras, largely because of his interest in healing Orthodoxy's centuries-old breach with Rome. Unlike the retired Chrysostomos, the new primate is an active ecumenist who has been a delegate for the church of Greece at several interfaith councils. Reflecting what may well become a new era of good feeling in Mediterranean Orthodoxy, Athenagoras last...
...Greeks and Greek Americans from Harvard, M.I.T. and the Boston area, will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 28, on the Boston Common to protest the Greek Army's cancellation of the free elections once scheduled for that date...