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  1. Sep 2026
    1. SOCRATES: I do not really know him myself, Euthyphro. He is apparentlyyoung and unknown. They call him Meletus, I believe. He belongs to thePitthean deme, if you know anyone from that deme called Meletus, with longhair, not much of a beard, and a rather aquiline nose.

      cf. with Benjamin Jowett translation:

      A young man who is little known, Euthyphro; and I hardly know him : his name is Meletus, and he is of the deme of Pitthis. Perhaps you may remember his appearance; he has a beak, and long straight hair, and a beard which is ill grown.

      There is certainly a charge of "youth" in both translations, but the "beak" and "ill-grown beard" seem to be more belittling in Jowett which be ad hominem appearance attacks on Meletus of Pithos before we've even heard his argument.

      Which of these descriptions would have had cultural significance in Ancient Greece?

      See: Pithos, Pitthos, Pithus: https://topostext.org/place/380239DPit

  2. Jan 2022
    1. Yet Spielberg directs her to act like a Disney princess, with oversimplified facial and vocal expressions reflecting a single unambiguous emotion at a time.

      Brody makes the Spielberg seem like he didn't do a good job with the character and how she should act which doesn't get to the point of the argument but rather is arguing that the actor didn't do well.

    2. Natalie Wood, of course, had no business playing Maria in the original film, and her irrepressible presence couldn’t salvage the dismally narrow role.

      Again, Brody is making the character of Maria seem lesser than what it is to distract you from the real argument of what is going wrong in the movie.

    3. but even here Spielberg relies on her presence to justify his superficial and reductive choices.

      Brody is attacking the Spielberg for putting a character in the moving making it seem like the only way he got the movie to be popular was from Rita Moreno.

    4. Whatever Spielberg and Kushner may have had in mind, what they deliver with this simplistic backstory is an endorsement of incarceration: the movie makes clear that Tony came out of prison a better person than he went in.

      The author tries to attack Spielberg and Kushner to make it seem like they did not make Tony the right character.

  3. Sep 2016