Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herbert Bloch, professor of Greek and Latin, has been appointed professor in charge of the School for Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome, it was announced recently. He has been given a two-year leave from the University to assume his new post...
Faced with this new demand, architects find themselves confronted with an age-old problem. The oldest solution to building an ideal structure for listening still seems the best; the ancient Greek and Roman amphitheaters were often acoustically so good that a sigh on stage carried to the farthest row. How to get the same characteristics under a roof and still make room for 100-piece orchestras, huge choral groups and whole opera companies with their oversize sets, ballet corps and costume designers is testing anew the ingenuity of the present generation of architects. Among their solutions...
...competence in subjects outside her field. Books on mythology and poetry line the walls of her Observatory office. Her textbook, Introduction to Astronomy, used in Astronomy 1, is spiked with apt quotations from classical mythology. As an undergraduate she won a college prize for a "critical essay on the Greek text of the Gospel of St. Matthew." ("It was a sitting duck," she says...
...British resolution would have the U.N. General Assembly note the charges that Greece had supplied arms, ammunition and money to Greek Cypriot terrorists, and call upon Greece to take "effective measures" to prevent such support of encouragement...
...Greek resolution would have the Assembly take note that the situation on Cyprus has "gravely deteriorated," and express the wish that Cypriots be given "the opportunity to determine their own future by the application of their right to self-determination...