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However, Lewis emphasized the importance of "agape" love. "Agape" is the Greek word for love in the commandment to love thy neighbor used in the Bible. It deals with love involving will, not romantic love or love between friends. "As a clinician, I have discovered that `agape' is key to all relationships," Nicholi said...
...mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, serves as both Greek chorus and black preacher; her sermons give the film heft and life...
...expedition to a "Waters of Peace" program that aims to locate ecologically threatening wrecks left under the sea. "We conceived this operation as a way to carry on Cousteau's work and philosophy," she says, sitting in the Captain's former office in Paris surrounded by diving helmets, Greek amphoras and other memorabilia...
After all, the College handbook specifically states that fraternities may not hold social or recruiting events on campus; it is Harvard's downstream neighbors at MIT who have been notorious for their Greek life...
...career, Conyers has distinguished himself mostly as a truculent ideologue. Among his causes have been a guaranteed annual income for the poor and reparations for descendants of slaves. "A fox knows many, many things, while a hedgehog knows only one larger truth," says a House Democrat, paraphrasing the ancient Greek poet Archilochus. "John Conyers has been a hedgehog...