Word: greekness
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...deliberately copy the archaic style of Old Kingdom figures done nearly two millenniums before. Chinese craftsmen in the Sung dynasty made ritual bronze vessels almost indistinguishable from those of the Shang period, 2,100 years earlier. Roman sculptors in the 2nd century A.D. made versions of 5th century B.C. Greek prototypes, and from then on, there would be an immense industry in the copying, overrestoration and outright forgery of everything antique -- marbles, bronzes, pots, cameo gems, goldwork...
...none of your gold chains today . . ./ Immigrants and faggots, they make no sense to me./ They come to our country and think they'll do as they please,/ Like start some mini-Iran, or spread some f disease./ They talk so many goddam ways, it's all Greek...
...R.S.V. goes its separate way too. Like other modern renderings from the ancient Hebrew and Greek, it systematically abandons the archaic thee and thou forms in addressing God. More important, in the words of the Rev. Bruce Metzger, the chief translator, it circumvents the "inherent bias of the English language toward the masculine gender." During the 1980s the National Council of Churches, in response to insistent feminist demands, published three sets of highly controversial rewrites of certain Bible passages. The texts referred to God as "Father ((and Mother))," inserted women's names that did not appear in the original...
...play, which is a play within a play within a...et cetera, is a spoof on Greek tragedy, modern drama and Woody Allen himself. Considering the piece is approximately 45 minutes long, the complexity is both impressive and confusing...
...Christians and 4,000 Jews are ensconced in separate areas of Jerusalem's walled Old City. Two weeks ago, the fragile demographic arrangements were shattered when 150 Jewish radicals moved into St. John's Hospice, a four-building complex in the city's Christian Quarter owned by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. Church officials insist the move was illegal. Both sides faced off in the courts and on the streets as rioting crowds disrupted the Easter, Passover and Ramadan holidays...