Word: specializations
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...they did not want their schoolmates to understand them (as Dukakis even now uses Greek with his aide Nick Mitropoulos when he does not want reporters to know what they are saying). His mother told Michael the Greek myths when he was a child. He thought there was something special about being a Greek, and there is. Precisely because he lacked the rub of real Greeks around him in the playground, being Greek was internalized as a concept more prescriptive than descriptive. When he first visited Greece, he was put off for a while by the gritty reality, the undisciplined...
When Jules Dassin adapted Euripides' Hippolytus for the screen in 1962, with Anthony Perkins as the Hippolytus 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...
Brinkley also salutes Leon Henderson and Chester Bowles, the two largely unheralded heads of the Office of Price Administration--probably the most thankless job in Washington during the war years. Though despised by every lobbying group that found its request for special privileges denied and by must of Congress, Henderson and Bowles managed to enforce some badly-needed rationing and price control programs on a nation that had just emerged from the Depression and was reluctant for another period of sacrifice and scarcity...
...further the children's education, the Summer Splash exhibit has also invited special guest appearances of folk singers, dancers and even a "bubbleologist" to demonstrate the properties of water...
...split squeaked through a church convention in Detroit. Under the plan, a woman bishop would maintain jurisdiction over all of her flock but would not necessarily minister to everyone. Any congregation that rejected the notion of a woman bishop could petition the diocese to come under the special care of a male "Episcopal Visitor" who would substitute for the spurned woman prelate at Communion, baptisms and confirmations. Visitors could also fill in for male bishops whose support for women bishops offends traditionalists. To make matters even more complex, the regular bishops, be they male or female, would still make...