Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major in the Salvation Army, to his position by simply showing her that the Army can be bought. He is also looking for a successor to his position as head of the munitions firm, and he ultimately finds the man he wants in Barbara's fiance, a professor of Greek and a poet...
...addition to classroom politics, Herman was fond of history, biography and a study of the U.S. Constitution. Other pleasures: Greek and Roman classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall. He stayed late only if the class was debating. Other days he went home to his chores. One afternoon in 1930, while Herman was picking turnips, the house caught fire and burned to the ground (with one casualty, a German shepherd dog named Al Smith). Gene, who was spending weekdays in Atlanta as agriculture commissioner and only weekends at home as a father, took advantage of the fire to move...
...England. And England, as everybody knows, traces its blood to the line of Danaus, whose daughters drifted onto that island many years ago. And Danaus, as most everybody knows, was one of the first inhabitants of that land now called Greece to set up with a family name. And Greek family names, as some people do not know, begin with Zeus. It seems hardly necessary to trace the ancestry of Zeus. There rests the case for the beard ancestry...
Yeat's version of the Greek tragedy offers its difficulties--the longer speeches include a number of passages obviously difficult to enunciate clearly--but it is still admirably suited for a modern audience because it stresses the excitement which the play contains. The director, D.J. Sullivan, understands this fact and has recreated Oedipus as a truly gripping piece of theater. Furthermore he and Harold Scott, who portrays the King, also understand the subtle rhythms of the tragedy, for in their hands the play rises through a beautifully timed series of climaxes to the point where Oedipus' anguished scream announces that...
...theater and society in the eighteenth century, is as different from Oedipus Rex as any play can be, but--partly perhaps because it is so dissimilar--it makes an attractive companion piece to the great tragedy. This play has aged more in its much shorter existence than the Greek drama, yet it still retains much life because many of the subjects of its barbs, including drama criticism and the press, are very much with us today...