Word: trojans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Trojan Women by Euripides. Loeb Ex. 7:30, March 16-18. Tickets free at box office day before performance. American Hurrah!. 7:30, March 9 and 10; 3:30, 7:30, March 11. Free...
...their power in the cities. If they can assert their control over the newly urbanized population in the cities as easily as they were able to assert their control over the rural population and win their support in the countryside, the movement of population will have been only a Trojan horse...
Trinity could manage only one win in each division, and the Trojan's poor showing surprised everyone. "They really are pretty good for a New England team--I never expected such a killing!" Marion said...
...myth is not what it is considered to be in everyday speech-a fantasy or a misstatement. It is rather a veiled explanation of the truth. The transformation from fact to myth is endlessly fascinating. The battle of Achilles and Hector, for example, is symbolic, but there was a Trojan War in which great heroes fought. The psychological duel between Faust and the Devil is a philosophical and psychological metaphor, but Georg Faust, a German magician who was born about 1480, did live and did make claims to superhuman power, including the ability to restore the lost works of Plato...
...March" in the '30s and the subsequent sanctuary of Mao Tse-tung and his followers in the caves of Yenan. The events were real enough, but for this generation of Chinese, and probably for generations to come, they will have much the same deep mythological significance that the Trojan War had for the Greeks...