Word: greekness
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Though organizers of the event feared protest of the Turkish ambas- sador's visit by Greek and Armenian students, the evening was peaceful...
Noting the presence of Greek guests, speakers and attendees emphasized the desire for cooperation between the three nations...
...production's effort to capture the busy feel of a Greek performance is successful, developed on three fronts: the musical, the rhapsodical, and the terpsichorean...
Especially in the fast-moving dialogue, Williams' translation is witty--and the production benefits. Compare the literal Greek of Pentheus' sarcasm (Hos thrasus ho Bakhos, How insolent is this Bacchus!) with Williams' "Bacchic backtalk!" Again in the same scene "Deinos su deinos kapi dein' erkhei pathe (I need a macron)," "You are wonderful, wonderful" (Laurence Welk, anybody?) "And wonderful are the experiences you go to meet" becomes in Williams "You are awe-inspiring. Your outcome will inspire awe." The translation and the production share the great felicity of exaltation in the words themselves...
...many U.S. sporting events result in divisiveness signified by the "pennant race": two sub-divisions of a country pursuing the same goal. Consider the 1978 Red Sox and Yankees, who, in their struggle for American League East supremacy, embodied Athens and Sparta in their quest for hegemony over the Greek peninsula...