Word: greekness
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...coined the term eugenics, from a Greek stem meaning "good in birth," was a cousin of Charles Darwin's. Englishman Francis Galton (1822-1911) had a substantial inheritance and a Victorian range of scientific curiosity. He dabbled in a number of fields, including geographical exploration, but his passion was mathematics, particularly the infant field of statistics...
...hard to figure out why we look to the athletic arena for heroes. No ancient Greek dramaturge would turn his back on material like this: one man tested in crisis; the victor emergent from the sweat and roil of combat; gifted with superhuman size and godlike strength; and, perhaps most important, confronted with the brutal and inescapable vulnerability that all great athletes must face--the daily threat that an inferior force might vanquish them. Athletic heroism attains the heights of glory through its very proximity to defeat. And it dramatizes the worth of workaday values we want our kids...
...Clarence Thomas, the ouster of House Speaker Jim Wright on ethics charges and the fight that Newt Gingrich led over the misuse of the House bank. Congress is now involved in an endless cycle of payback that makes the warring House of Atreus seem like just one more placid Greek family...
...Huffington says, he thinks of himself not as gay but as probably bisexual: in other words, his marriage to the former Arianna Stassinopoulos wasn't a total sham. He insists that he was never unfaithful to her, with men or women. And he takes his relatively new Greek Orthodox faith--a footnote in Brock's piece--very seriously. "He has become a man of great spirituality," says a close friend...
...masterpiece of the theater and continues to reign at the forefront of classic dramatic literature. What distinguishes Phaedra from other plays of moral struggle and human vice is its impeccable portrayal of personality and inner debate through rich, introspective dialogue. The play itself is based on Euripides' account of Greek mythology in which a complex scenario involving Gods, mortals, family vendettas and suppressed libido interact in a whirlwind of death and revenge. The plot itself is a vast intertwining of story lines, rooted in a background of bestiality and Amazon romance. The pivotal action focuses on Phaedra, wife of Theseus...