Word: pother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...character, Panos and Euterpe went to see again the play that had brought them together. It had special meaning for them. Hippolytus is the tale of a man too good for his own good. Intent on his pursuits, impervious to the demonic, he will not notice the gods' dreadful pother being made above his head. The play deals with a recurrent flaw in the Greek ideal. Martha Nussbaum, in her profound study of ancient Greek ethical standards, The Fragility of Goodness, argues that self-sufficiency was a standard for the city that individuals tried to appropriate for themselves, with tragic...
...epistolary pother had its genesis on June 13, when Watt and Arens sat together at a Washington banquet. Four days later, Watt reiterated his dinner-table chatter by mail...