Word: greekness
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...Starr Professor of Classical, Modern Jewish & Hebrew Literature James L. Kugel yesterday describing how the Hebrew words for "young woman" and "maid" were translated in biblical prose to the Greek term "virgin," in Literature & Arts C-37: The Bible & Its Interpreters...
...ballet version of an old Errol Flynn movie with plenty of swordfights, abductions, and veiled, scantily clad women. Set on the coast of the Ionian Sea, while Greece was under Turkish occupation, it is the story of a young pirate, Conrad (Robert Wallace), who falls in love with a Greek slave, Medora (Natasha Akhmarova), in a Turkish bazaar. When a pasha arrives looking for women to add to his harem, Medora is stolen away from him by Conrad and his band...
These stories are all either true or based on fact, but when Sedaris writes about his own family he seems not to resist satire by caricature. No one could be as loopy as his Greek grandmother Ya-Ya. Surely no one's father was ever ruled by such morbid paranoia. Do children of eight and 10 really get hold of a smutty book and then walk around chirping "tight willin' gasshole...
...years have tried to drag America's $30-billion-a-year intelligence empire into the post-cold war era as ugly disclosures--especially the unmasking of traitors Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson--made the agency seem an unreliable relic. Why should anyone think that Tenet, a New Yorker whose Greek-immigrant parents owned a diner, can succeed...
That's what euthanasia means in Greek, good death. For the Netherlands, it's also good policy. Other countries will have to decide for themselves, but surely the Dutch style of open debate about a painful and difficult topic is the best...