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Charles P. Segal ’57, a classics professor who brought contemporary techniques of literary criticism to bear on ancient Greek and Latin texts, died on Jan. 1 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after a year-long battle with cancer...
...first Commencement followed in the tradition of commencements at English universities, with orations in Latin and Greek and a formal dinner for 50 guests that included faculty, administrators, and all of the nine graduating seniors...
...fall of 50 we all moved into the various houses. I landed at Eliot where the tutor was much loved. He was a Greek scholar and sometimes forgot that all of us lived in the twentieth century. He would, over a glass of sherry, refer to the traffic along the river as those boxes traveling from nowhere to some place else! Also resident in Eliot House was a senior editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He used to do his morning exercises in the buff and one day the biddy (a term used to describe the wonderful Irish maids...
...Israelis hoped that the shortage of food and water would force an end to the standoff. They sent chocolate in for the priests on Greek Orthodox Easter but blocked any cigarettes from getting in. "Imagine smokers who haven't had a cigarette for a few days, let alone weeks," said a member of the Israeli negotiating team that huddled with Palestinian officials to end the siege. "You wouldn't be able to stand it." Hungry and frightened, almost 100 civilians left the church over the first few weeks. The soldiers and gunmen stayed, as did the priests, determined to protect...
...anything right now, they say, Afghans need the Buddha unearthed as symbolic proof that the Taliban weren't able to eradicate all of the country's rich, pre-Islamic heritage. The country is a historian's treasure trove. Between the 3rd and 8th centuries, Afghanistan experienced a fusion of Greek, Persian and Indian cultures. The Bamiyan statues, for example, showed traces of Greek influence, as if the sculptors had stolen the robes off Apollo, the Greek sun god, to drape their enormous Buddhas. "There's a cultural void left by the destruction of the two Buddhas," says Afghan archaeologist Zafar...