Word: greekness
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...little passion these days is the Greeks,” he says, pointing to his recently acquired collection of Greek art and sculpture in his Cambridge apartment...
...addition to sponsoring a lecture series in conjunction with the the politically charged production of the Greek tragedy Children of Herakles—scheduled to go up in the ART in January—Carr’s desk at home is littered with plays by Euripides and biographies of Greek playwrights...
Drumthwacket, the New Jersey governor's residence, is a genteel, Greek revival masterpiece. The 11,000 square foot spread harkens back to a gentler, calmer time when it was built in 1835. But when Gov. James McGreevey asked the state's Democratic Senators, Robert Torricelli and John Corzine, to the stately manor last Sunday night it wasn't for high tea. It was political...
...from an indication of grace, circumcision marked Jews "so that your landmight become desolate, and your cities burned," something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Bereft of a divine warrant for their well-being, Jews were at the mercy of their neighbors' worst instincts. In a remarkably frank assessment, the Greek Orthodox bishop of Jerusalem tells Feiler, "What the church did with Abraham was bitter and cruel...
...Professor of Latin and Greek Richard F. Thomas to imply that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s criticism of Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson is akin to a McCarthy-era witch hunt is both inaccurate and insulting (Letters, “Dershowitz Devises One-Sided Debate,” Sept. 27). Thomas ignores a key distinction: Dershowitz has proposed a debate between tenured equals in an academic forum, whereas the McCarthy investigations were inherently unequal and backed up by the coercive power...