Word: greek
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...eschatology; he crams his script with enough belly laughs for six Adam Sandler movies and enough citations of angelology and the Gnostic gospels to make a Jesuit's head split. This is a Shavian debate--Don Juan in New Jersey--with potty mouth. Dogma, recall, comes from the Greek word meaning "to think." And that's what Smith wants the viewer...
...pine needles and ferns. It was similar in size and overall shape to the beast most people still think of--despite a highly unpopular renaming a few years ago--as Brontosaurus. The University of Oklahoma paleontologists who found the new species have named it, aptly, Sauroposeidon, after the Greek sea god. Poseidon was also in charge of earthquakes, and it's clear that every step this gargantuan creature took must have been literally seismic...
...that he scored a disappointing 25 percent on that little pop quiz. His academic record in this particular case would actually overestimate the extent of his knowledge, a revelation that can be buttressed by his recent confusion of Slovenia and Slovakia and inability to distinguish a Greek from a Grecian. (Bradley, on the other hand, was smart enough to refuse to play the game when queried by Hiller...
...those who know most about the principles of good government and who have other rewards and a better life than the politician's?" asked Socrates on the sunny shores of ancient Athens. Last Thursday, 2,000 years after Socrates, George A. Papandreou, the Greek minister of foreign affairs, made us think about this very same question at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
Papandreou began his speech in Boylston Hall by describing the general trends that are shaping the current global environment. The audience struggled with the weighty disappointments that have been the hallmark of Greek-Turkish clashes. The audience also grappled with the conception of Papandreou as a leader. For one thing, he lacks the charisma of a shepherd, the traditional leader. For another, he does not come across as the most impressive orator...