June 1955
In This Issue
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Articles
Albert Einstein: Appraisal of an Intellect
"The passing of Einstein gives us a chance to stop and think how it felt to have been alive while one of the authentic great minds of all history was doing its work"
Introduction
The Modern Greeks: An Interpretation of National Characteristics
Before the First Coming
In the Greek Islands: A Marine - Agrarian Culture
The Return of Odysseus: Excerpts From a Modern Sequel to Homer's Odyssey
Where Greece Stands Today: Her Position in International Affairs
The Sea Gulls: A Story
Eternal Athens: A Modern City Which Still Lives Its Past
The Isles of Greece
Expecting the Barbarians
Some Aspects of Modern Greek Art: The Blending of Contrasting Traditions
Science and Industry
The Funeral Games: A Story
I Know the Night No Longer
Literary Renaissance: Modern Tendencies in Poetry and Fiction
The Language Problem
Daybreak
Coming Into Poros Harbor: A Few Pages From the Colossus of Maroussi
Poetry 1948
Orpheus in Hades: A Story
Two Octaves
Archaeology in Greece: An International Heritage
The King of Asine
The Smiles of the Statues
Calligraphy
To the Country of Statues: A Story
Unrecorded
A Chronology of Greek History
Greece: Some Suggested Readings
A Glossary of Greek Words
Acknowledgments
Dorothy Defontaine
A Life for Ten Cents
There are 250 million children in Asia, exclusive of China, and one of the first and most touching responsibilities of the United Nations has been to improve their health. The successful fight which has been waged against trachoma, tuberculosis, malaria, and yaws is a story of almost incredible achievement, and no man is better placed to tell it than S. M. KEENY.Mr. Keeny served in the State Department during the war; he has been with the United Nations since it was organized, first as Chief of UNRRA in Italy and then as Supply Officer in Europe for the United Nations Children’s Fund. Toduy he is Director of UNICEF for the Asia region.
The Valor of Teaching
Dancer, choreographer, and author, AGNES DE MILLEis the granddaughter of Henry George and comes naturally by her respect for ideas and those who proclaim them, especially the teachers. Among the honors which she takes seriously is that of being a Trustee of Sarah Lawrence College; in this capacity, at gatherings in Washington, Buffalo, and elsewhere, she has had occasion to pay tribute to the teaching profession in words which other eager students will take to heart.
The New Piety
There are signs today that the American people are intent on a religious revival, but how deep, asks the REVEREND HARRY C. MESERVE,does such faith go? Is it lip service or a genuine awakening? A graduate of Haverford College and of the Harvard Divinity School, Dr. Meserve has been minister of the First Unitarian Church of San Francisco since 1949. He has served two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Unitarian Association, and for three years was Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Christian Register.
Drone
Creole Love Song
NATHANIEL LAMAR, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia, twenty-one years ago, has always loved the Deep South and especially New Orleans. He prepared for Harvard at Phillips Exeter. He majored in English, and found particular stimulus for his writing in the courses which he took under Archibald MacLeish. He looks forward to a year of graduate study in England and after that hopes to teach in Africa.
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
Are Our Pearls Real?
Britain s foremost classicist, GILBERT MURRAY,is famous for his translations of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, and equally for his inspired teaching at Oxford, where for a quarter of a century he was Regius Professor of Greek. In 1918 he delivered the Presidential Address to the Classical Association, a paper which under the title “Religio Grammatici" has been widely reprinted. In 1954, in his eighty-ninth year, he spoke to them again, and the essay which follows is drawn from his address.
