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...years ago with [an error occurred while processing this directive] Last Letters from Hav - and which she revisits in her latest, perhaps most insightful book yet, titled simply Hav. Located south of the Caucasus, north of Turkey and this side of paradise, Hav had drowsed for centuries through Greek, Turkish, Russian and British occupations, wars of all colors and a League of Nations mandate before attaining a genial, pre-civil-war-Beirut balance among its many ethnic and political factions. Morris' word-portraits of Hav's labyrinthine Medina, its precious snow raspberries, its grueling annual "roof race" and the official...
...would all live in a better place.” Dorothy “Dobbie” Vasquez was Ty’s Latin teacher for four years at the Menlo School and also remembers his creativity. She recalls being impressed by a scrapbook that Ty designed for a Greek and Latin club of which Ty was a member. “It was breathtaking....He took a wooden block, and he carved mountains with beautiful pencil drawings,” says Vasquez, who was also Ty’s adviser for three years. Ty is survived by his wife...
...School, had mandated them). It was also the only discipline to confer undergraduate degrees besides the A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) and S.B. (Bachelor of Science) degrees—in Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Metallurgical Engineering. And even the S.B. degree in 1906 did not even require Latin or Greek for admission...
...manifests itself throughout Fun Home, which ranks as one of the most self-consciously bookish graphical works yet published. Many of the chapters use a canonical literary work as a central metaphor and reference point. Often as tangentially associated with homosexuality as her father, the works cited include The Greek Myths, Camus's The Death of Sisyphus, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, The Great Gatsby and eventually back to the Greek myths by way of James Joyce's Ulysses. The "Ulysses" chapter takes place near the end of Fun Home, when Bechdel must read it for course...
Life has been sweet ever since. Retailers such as Whole Foods Market have seen yogurt's shelf space nearly triple, with more than 40% sales growth over the past five years, the result of increased demand for cups, quarts, drinkables and everything from thick, Greek-style yogurt to water-buffalo-milk, goat's-milk and soy-milk varieties. Last year 3 out of 4 U.S. households spooned, drank and squeezed billions of dollars' worth of yogurt, an average of 5 lbs. per person--a paltry amount compared with the 40 lbs. the average Frenchman consumes...