Word: greeks
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...around them. The museum has also produced voluminous samplings of other aspects of the Nazi program of culture as total propaganda. There are vitrines of banned books and Nazi catalogs, and tape loops of old newsreels of cultural parades in Munich: triumphal processions of kitsch, with huge papier-mache Greek heads borne by people dressed as Rhine Maidens and warriors of the Teutoburg Forest. There are screenings of films whose display is still illegal in Germany, such as Hitlerjunge Quex, 1933, and Jud Suss, 1940. One can listen to a duet from Act I of Lohengrin, conducted by the young...
...that has served as the spiritual center of the place for more than 2500 years. Now a church, it frowns down on the piazza from behind a weighty Baroque facade, but on its flanks, embedded in the unadorned side walls, one can still see the scarred columns of the Greek temple it once was. The spaces between them are blocked up with the masonry of centuries now, and the interior of the building; which in pre-Christian times opened up freely on the disorderly life of the city, has been made dark, private and inaccessible...
...Conscience of the Eye is not a sentimentalist tract. It issues no call for a neoclassical revival, for an America dotted with cinderblock Romes and girdered Spartas like some overgrown theme park. Rather, this extraordinary book attempts to rebuild the Roman civitas and the Greek polis as much in our selves as in our surroundings. It proposes to break down walls and open up spaces to reveal vistas too long blocked off from view. And even if this book causes no cities to be razed or rebuilt, it will surely broaden avenues in its readers' minds
Gregory Nagy, who is Jones professor of classical Greek literature and professor of comparative literature, and who will step down at the end of the year after five years as house master, said that he and his wife are not involved in the search. "I sense that the way the community is handling it is very grass-roots," he said...
...Sanders Theatre, Maruca said. Although most of the tables will be geared towards the new semester's activities, one will be devoted to the term just past. Students will be able to pick up graded exams for Literature and Arts C-14: "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," Maruca said...