Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, he turns out to be merely an amiable, drink-swilling traveler -Composer Egk accompanies them with a staccato, dissonant score pricked by brisk and frequently shifting rhythms. Old-fashioned opera buffs will be startled by the spare arias, which are stripped to a few essential Greek-chorus phrases (in his first aria, the prefect sings over and over again: "Clean shirts, clean nightcaps, Latin mottoes over the beds"). Egk also allows the singers to sing their essential recitatives against the support merely of a sustained bass. The result is an opera that moves with beery gusto...
...Achilles on Skyros, a prime example of the later style of Nicolas Poussin, the master of the 17th century revival of classicism in France. Painted in 1656 for the French ambassador to the Vatican, it depicts the climactic moment in one of the liveliest of Greek legends. Young Achilles, dressed as a girl and hidden among the daughters of King Lycomedes of Skyros by his sea-goddess mother to escape his future fate at Troy, has just been tricked-by wily Ulysses-into revealing his identity. The painting shows the king's daughters reveling in necklaces, jeweled belts...
...Western art. He finds echoes of the design of the influencial classical works--Knidian Aphrodite, Laocoon, Apollo Belvedere, et al.--repeated and reworked, reasserting themselves after generations or even centuries. The most striking example of this that he gives is a comparison of a nude on a 4th century Greek mirror with a Picasso line drawing. Almost every gesture finds its antecedent and is copied and built upon almost unconsciously...
...Also under fire from Turkey was New York's Governor Averell Harriman, who lost no time in inviting Makarios to visit New York-an act which the University of Istanbul Students Union termed "disgusting." The population of New York State includes an estimated 297,000 people of Greek ancestry v. 36,000 of Turkish ancestry...
Miri is a grave Greek girl with long black eyelashes and long brooding silences who goes to an eastern U.S. college. At a nearby school is her cousin Lexy-mercurial, unkempt, rude and life-intoxicated. Lexy's roommate Josh is well-rooted in America but emotionally rootless, blond, bland and sweet-mannered. Lexy, who has run away from his unscrupulous shipowner father, is pursuing a hero image of himself. He is capable of madly egocentric flourishes, as when he bets an ear against $20 on the turn of a card. Josh, who sees college as a succession of merit...