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...editors seem to be working under the assumption that anyone who would buy this book already owns the previous collection, and won't mind flipping through it to find what's been omitted. And Wilson the amateur linguist, who had a habit of sprinkling his letters with bits of Greek, Hebrew and Russian, would hardly have approved of the decision not to print his use of other languages in their original orthography. The editors are also not above a little politically correct editorializing in the footnotes, as witness their comment on Wilson's "totally unjustifiable anger" with...
...antidrug message, "hugely exhilarating. A 'Just Say No' approach would never work. But they are surprisingly receptive to hard facts." The daughter of an electrician and a chorus dancer, Greenfield enrolled at Oxford to study philosophy and psychology after graduating from school with an unusual mix of math, Greek and Latin. "I was interested in why people behaved the way they did, what makes them fall in love or start wars. I discovered that science provided me with more answers than philosophy did," she explains. Her aim of "meshing science with society" has something of the zeal of the convert...
...inconceivable in 1962 when I first ran for the legislature that a Greek American could be elected governor,” Dukakis said...
Zachary S. Podolsky ’04, a Crimson editor, is a classics concentrator in Currier House. This summer, he is engaged in the highly lucrative fields of Summer School proctoring and converting Byzantine Greek manuscripts into electronic format...
...Bible, books on technology and a stack of Left Behind books. When Mead predicts that our century will be remembered as the Age of Apocalypse, he does not mean to suggest that the world will soon end in a fiery holocaust. "The word apocalypse," he observes, "comes from a Greek word that literally means 'lifting of the veil.' In an apocalyptic age, people feel that the veil of normal, secular reality is lifting, and we can see behind the scenes, see where God and the devil, good and evil are fighting to control the future." To the extent that more...