Word: greekness
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...like Greek gods who were the very rivers and streams they represented in myth, language itself is an inextricable, physical feature of Heaney's pagan world. This takes on a literal dimension in "Alphabets" (1987), where the letter A is "two rafters and a cross-tie" and the number 2 "a swan's neck and a swan's back...
...most current students, the paradigm gut class has always been Literature & Arts C-14: "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," a class more commonly known as "Heroes for Zeros." But undergraduates responding to last year's class in the CUE guide rated the course at 3.0 for workload and 2.8 for difficulty--only slightly below the 3.1 and 3.0 respective averages for all of last fall's Core courses...
Gregory Nagy, Jones professor of Classical Greek Literature and professor of Comparative Literature, claims that the course's lingering reputation as a gut may surprise students once they have enrolled. Starting last year, Nagy beefed up the course requirements, and the one-time gut may never be the same...
...think I'm being oversensitive by not wanting to talk about Harvard. Aren't I just another Harvard elitist? After all, the vast majority of college students I met this summer were all eager to talk about their schools--from their school's U.S. News & World Report rankings to Greek life...
...although retail stores are struggling to survive, the multi-ethnic character of the neighborhood has contributed to a number of success stories for up-and-coming restauranteurs, selling a variety of food ranging from Indian to Greek to Taiwanese...