Word: greeks
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...central puzzle of A Writer's People, in the end, is the unimportance of people to the author of it. The pages are littered with names (Kingsley Amis drinking in London's Fleet Street, or Aldous Huxley watching Gandhi make a speech in India, or Naipaul discussing the Greek playwright Menander with former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan) but names are all that most of them remain - two-dimensional also-rans in Naipaul's literary one-upmanship. The laughing, exuberant and fleshed-out characters that were such a feature of his earlier work have got up from the table...
...rest against the walls, waiting to be fitted into their frames. Below ground, white-gloved workers are laboriously transferring the 3,000 works currently in storage to a new, climate-controlled archive system. And in the Room of Muses, a lone conservator painstakingly cleans a sculpture of Erato, the Greek muse of lyric poetry, one of eight statues that give the museum's new receiving hall its name. These figures date from 2nd century Greece, but set against the hall's watermelon-red stucco walls, they take on a decidedly postmodern feel. They make a fitting welcome committee...
...feel for him—it’ll be mighty cold standing barred outside the door of every other club besides his big bro’s for the next four years…Harvard’s Greek brofest may also face a dry future, as one rushee’s trip to UHS on bid night has landed the boys in hot water with the national chapter (not to mention the University). That’ll suck for the five people who care…Something Harvard should care about: Paris is doing Harvard...
...didn’t make sense to continue to require faculty who are proposing courses as departmental alternates to guarantee they’ll be given again, because we’re moving into a transition into another program,” Lewis said. Richard F. Thomas, professor of Greek and Latin, said the expansion is necessary because professors are less willing to produce new classes for the Core, creating a “crunch in terms of available courses” for students. He added that he has heard no objections from faculty to the charge set forth...
...Greek tragedian Sophocles placed his mythical protagonist Oedipus in Thebes, and later Colonus, but never in Florida. However, modern playwright and actress Maureen Angelos—member of 16-year old theater group the Five Lesbian Brothers and co-author of the play “Oedipus at Palm Springs”—doesn’t give a damn about Sophocles. According to Angelos, her goal is “dismantling the patriarchy one show at a time.” Angelos, accompanied by the rest of the Five Lesbian Brothers, and Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver?...