Word: greek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news! Meg lived alone, and in a way the news was her family. Journalism offered a chance to apply something outside the news to the news. She was saved from the corrosive boredom that ruins other journalists by her knowledge of English literature. In her 50s she took up Greek...
Mallory's leathery skin gleamed so brightly that climber Dave Hahn likened it to "a Greek or Roman marble statue." Mallory's face was the only part of his body unexposed. He had a broken right arm, trauma to his shoulder and fractures of both leg bones just above the top of his single surviving hobnail boot. Even so, the climbers were awed by the physical specimen before them. "We each noticed the muscular arms of the climber," says Hahn. "After all these years, George Mallory still cut an impressive figure...
When the lord of the underworld snatched away her beloved daughter, Demeter was inconsolable. She wandered the world and in her misery allowed the fields to lie barren. In modern parlance, she was "in trauma." Today the Greek goddess of agriculture might have talked about her loss, vented her frustration and worked through her grief. Certainly, she would not have been left alone with her sorrow...
...promising of post-Sondheim theatrical songwriters, has taken a sharp turn on the road to Broadway: his latest composition is a song cycle about love, sin, doubt and transcendence. The music is composed in an utterly personal style that blends pop, gospel and classical influences; the lyrics weave together Greek mythology and Christian hymnody to complex, unsettling effect. Persuasively performed on CD by singers such as Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin and Guettel, Myths & Hymns is a major event in American popular song...
Mary Maples Dunn, the incoming head of the new Radcliffe Institute, will deliver the annual Radcliffe Lecture to first-years during orientation week in a program that will also include DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy...