Word: greeks
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...discovering what people read is very visible and very immediate," says Colette spokesman Guillaume Salmon. The book's success lies in its deft melding of high-mindedness and raunch - nothing like knowing that your penchant for outdoor sex is due to your binding zodiacal link to Dionysus, the orgiastic Greek god of wine. As Cox says, "What [readers] didn't expect were the smarty bits; they just expected the unzipped stuff, not the smarty pants themselves. Pop, but also classic, high and low." To achieve this, the book's first two sections examine questions of body, soul and mind, drawing...
...Harvard Early Music Society presents Montverdi’s famous opera, L’Orfeo, featuring Libretto by Alessandro Strigglio. Often referred to as the “first great opera,” Montverdi’s musical tale of the classic Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice will be performed by a group of Harvard faculty and undergraduates, along with early music professionals from the area. Tickets $20, $9 for students, available at the Harvard Box office and online. Friday, Saturday at 8 p.m. Horner Room, Agassiz Theater...
...blues music. In addition to selling over 57 million albums, Dylan is the only musician to ever have been considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This year, Harvard is even offering a freshman seminar titled “Bob Dylan,” taught by Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas and focusing on the musical and literary significance of his work. This course, among the ranks of seminars on Goethe, Dickens and Rousseau, prompted a discussion around campus of the academic merit and importance of such a class...
...passion, Equus is a talky play, with long speeches about Greek gods and the deadening effects of civilization that in the wrong hands could sound like overwrought, long-winded clichés. Cozzens makes the most of these moments, endowing Dysart with a slightly hostile glare and energetic hands, imbuing his rambling with all the energy of a repressed fancier of a dead society, with a frigid wife and a job whose benefit he begins to doubt. As Alan, Fishburn is a worthy foil, with a mournful stare and an affect that switches like a light between cold disengagement...
...Buttiglione's appointment emerged after his party, the Union of Christian Democrats, threatened to leave Berlusconi's ruling coalition. In years past, such nominations have always received a weary pass from Parliament. This time - perhaps because more than half the M.E.P.s were first elected in June - they didn't. Greek Socialist Stavros Lambrinidis, vice chairman of the Civil Liberties Committee, says that its vote against Buttiglione created a healthy dynamic. "All the committees started focusing on the quality of the other Commissioners," he says...