Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tutor, Dr. Pangloss, teach him that this is the best of all possible worlds. Chanting his faith, he and his tutor and his sweetheart Cunegonde are catapulted from one misfortune to the next, witnessing or enduring in 20 pages more crime, misery and calamity than exist in all Greek tragedy; in fact, Candide himself, "the mildest man in the world," is constantly killing people. At long last he is led from idealism to the commonsense of keeping strictly to his own concerns, of cultivating his garden...
Goheen has had little time to develop as a scholar, since much of his post-Ph.D time has been spent in administrating the national Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. A book he published about four years ago was described by one colleague as "small but significant" in the field of Greek literary criticism. He has, according to one friend, a broad interest in classicial culture as it fits into the traditions of the West...
Goheen gained his reputation as an administrator while he was director of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, a national scholarship program sponsored by the American Association of Graduate Schools. He lectured only part-time at Princeton, in two courses, "Man and His Freedom in the Western Tradition," and "Greek Tragedy and Translation...
...Most popular theory is that Sinai is Jebel Musa (Mount of Moses), an impressive 8,000-ft. of granite in the southern end of the Sinai peninsula. Part of the Greek monastery of St. Catherine there dates back to 330 A.D., indicating how old the tradition is. But to get to Jebel Musa, Moses would have had to lead his people through the Egyptian copper and turquoise mines in the area...
...orthodox have always been a little leery of Simone Weil, and with some reason. The Notebooks, chockablock with the ritual lore of a dozen sects and faiths, show that she was deeply preoccupied with Dionysus, Osiris, Buddha and Plato as well as Christ. She applauds continually the Greek ideals of harmony, measure, proportion and order. Yet she herself burns with a passion for the Absolute, and the Hellenic "nothing in excess" is precisely the law she could not live by. Her grandeur, as well as her absurdity, it has been pointed out, is that she shares the apocalyptic vision...