Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salon. It no longer mattered, at least from the viewpoint of painting, who won the Battle of Gaugamela, or which model was standing in for Phryne and which for Aspasia. In due course, movies like Spartacus and The Ten Commandments would satisfy the need once felt for Bible scenes, Greek agoras and Roman battles. What was left to painting was the here and now, and that was where Impressionism, child of Courbet's realism, came into its glory...
Hubris -- a kind of convulsive, ambitious pride -- was the tragic flaw in many a Greek hero, but it is life's blood to theater people. What else gives them the courage to put epic dreams on a bare stage, to evoke ancient empires with only words and a few props? Arrogance is the mother of theatrical invention, and the spur to Douglas C. Wager's new production of Derek Walcott's The Odyssey at the Arena Stage in Washington...
Speakers praised her commitment to her Greek heritage, the University and her family...
Green, Washington Post columnist Judith Mann, Warden's friend Patricia Alger and Warden's daughter Staci spoke during the service, which was conducted by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, and the Rev. Emmanuel Metaxes, of the Greek Orthodox Church Taxiarchae in Watertown...
Sommers is already acting on at least one of the report's recommendations. She has been training TFs to teach writing in Core courses such as Gregory Nagy's Literature and Arts C-14, "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization...