Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paul Tsongas has a sad, hurt look. On the podium he is a limp performer who often slurs and swallows his words. Afterward he has to brace himself for insinuating questions about another Greek politician from Massachusetts, the tattered Michael Dukakis. On top of all that, Tsongas must assure voters he has really licked the cancer that led him to retire from the U.S. Senate seven years ago. Why on earth is this man running for President...
...CULTURE OF ghostwriting is, in essence, a reversion to the pre Enlightenment concept of authorship. In classical Greek civilization, it was perfectly acceptable for an unknown member of a philosophical school to use the name of his more famous mentor in disseminating his writings...
...that was enough to cause a minor panic in the English department who feared the loss of Russian novels, Greek classics and linguistic books. Professor of English Lawrence Buell posted a memo on the English department's building reminding scholars to untag books in the P through PF section that they didn't want to leave the Yard...
...What amazes me is how the political right has latched onto the word and treated it as a battle cry of dogma," says Gregory Nagy, Jones professor of classical Greek literature. "It is hype being spread from above, by people with political axes to grind...
...Harvard decided to break tradition by inviting one of its own to speak at Commencement. Eliot Professor of Greek emeritus John H. Finley Jr. '25, described as the last immortal professor at Harvard, agreed to speak at the graduation exercises...