Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this series, Professor Wolfson traces the growth and interrelationship of Greek, Hebrew, Moslem and Christian pholosophies. All 12 volumes have been written, five have already been published and two more are almost realy for the printer. Wolfson writes all his manuscripts out in longhand ("I'm old fashioned") and then puts them away in the huge file cabinets that adorn his study. When the rough draft of the entire series was written, Wolfson began the slow process of revising each manuscript, some of which he claims not to have looked at in over ten years. But all the rough drafts...
...failure of nerve, Koestler believes, sabotaged these true starts toward knowledge. Faced with a Greek society already in decline, Plato equated any change with decay. For philosophic reasons, he decided that the sphere was the only perfect shape, that the world must be a perfect sphere and that the motion of heavenly bodies must be in perfect circles at uniform speed. Aristotle returned to the idea of an immobile earth and placed it in the center of nine concentric, transparent spheres, outside which was the Unmoved Mover who kept the whole machinery turning. To make the heavens jibe with Aristotle...
Flying into Ankara last week to celebrate Greece's post-Cyprus reconciliation with Turkey, Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis was greeted by a scene of happy unity-crowds of cheering adults and waving children docilely respecting a human fence of smart, white-gloved soldiers. Had he arrived two hours earlier...
Despite harassment by the Menderes government, Inonu, military hero of Turkey's post-World War I struggle against Greek occupation, was determined to make a political tour of the country. He had been struck and buffeted by Menderes mobs on a trip through Turkey's Aegean provinces (TIME, May n). He had returned to Istanbul to find a crowd of Menderes partisans waiting at the ruined 5th century city walls built by Theodosius II. The mob charged Inonu's car, smashed in one of its windows with heavy rocks. Led by Republican members of the nation...
...Renaissance Popes did not stick at theological points in art matters, but avidly built up one of the world's richest collections of classical religious works, both,Roman and Greek. More courageous was their patronage of living masters for the greater glory of God. Among hundreds of other artists, the Popes had the wisdom to commission Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo. These three, as devout and exalted artists as ever lived, vied with one another in service to the Vatican. Among them they exemplified and gave the highest expression to the three facets of beauty as articulated by St. Thomas...