Word: prometheus
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...Demosthenes' failure. In this final ruin of Greece into a diluted varnish spread over the Oriental and Roman worlds, he sees the virtual end of the one manner of life that might, if it had stayed on its feet, have been the salvation of the world. Demosthenes is Prometheus borne down by Chaos and Old Night; and only flick-ford's book is the chapter on "The Destroyer" where he assesses Darwin's work in its relation to what the world thinks and does now and may think and do in the future. The research which absorbed his life...
Professor Sikes is a classical scholar of high authority. In addition to having edited a number of works such as Aeschylus' "Prometheus Vinctus" and Homeric Hymns, he is the author of a book entitled. "The Anthropology of the Greeks," and another called "Hero and Leander," a translation in verse from the Greek...
...First and Second Academic Art Theatres (i. e., the so-called "Moscow Art Theatre" recently brought to the U. S. by astute Morris Gest). The same repertoire with which they appeared in the U. S., likewise the Prometheus and Oresteia of Aeschylus, a. d. Shakespeare's Hamlet...
Friday afternoon and Friday evening in Symphony Hall, the last of this season's coreerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Koussevitzky conducting. The programme embraces Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 for String Orchestra, his Adagio from the Toccata in C major. Scriabin's "Prometheus," Debussy's "Clouds" and "Festivals," and Borodin's Polootsian dances from "Prince Igor...
Last week, Heracles railway train transported Prometheus Karolyi and his wife across the Canadian frontier, bursting their gyves asunder. The things that the Count wished to say, that the U. S. Department of State forbade him to say and that everybody was anxious he should be allowed to say were said...