Word: greeks
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...soul, with her Vargas body and "state-of-the-art fellatrics," be the wellspring of a brilliant child? Lenny must save this creature, for Max and from herself. His anguished pursuit of Linda, in which he tries mating her with a dim boxer (Michael Rapaport), is tracked by a Greek chorus that's all singing, all dancing and so Yiddish you could plotz. "I see catastrophe," one chorus member darkly intones. "Worse--I see lawyers...
...Harvard Hellenic Society comprises Greek and Greek-American students, from both the College and the graduate schools, and seeks to foster a sense of Greek culture at Harvard...
Coincidentally to my writing this column about the metaphysical implications of athletics, I'm taking Literature and Arts C-14 this semester, "The Concept of the Hero in Ancient Greek Civilization." According to Professor Gregory Nagy, athletics to the ancient Greeks were the ultimate contest. Ultimate victory required giving all of yourself to the contest, and in this way ultimate victory was analogous to death...
Cyprus, another formerly Greek region, was occupied by Turkey during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and remains so today, to the dismay of Greece...
Stephanopoulos' speech last night followed an address to Harvard undergraduates and graduates of Greek descent yesterday afternoon, where he was presented with a plaque from the Hellenic Students Society by its president, loannis Dossios...