Word: aegean
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...left out, has sent Premier Peter Stambolic on a working holiday to Bulgaria, and has docketed him for Greece in October. The Bulgarian Foreign Minister meanwhile has gone to Turkey, which Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer visited last month. And last week, in the first visit to the Aegean kingdom ever made by a Communist Premier, Maurer flew to Greece...
...limited his principal personae to one spider and one fly. The Magus fails because he spins a flimsy, far-flung net of narrative and then gets all tangled up in it. At the center of the tangle is the Magus, a swami-style psychiatrist who owns part of an Aegean isle, stocks it with 30 or 40 of his disciples, and with their help plays Prospero to the unhappy young man who is the novel's narrator. Kill or cure is his intention, and to further it he mounts a colossal psychodrama that takes about two months...
There was a time when any Congressman traveling abroad was automatically labeled a junketeer, when an Adam Clayton Powell might wind up on the shores of the Aegean with a couple of pretty secretaries, and an Allen Ellender might inflame all of black Africa with tartly phrased racist comments. No more-or hardly any more...
Fiscal inequality. The income of the Archbishop of Athens is estimated at $70,000 a year. Obviously, the bishop of an Aegean island with a few thousand fishermen and goatherds does not do nearly as well, and to make the fiscal inequality of it worse, the current law decrees that where a bishop is appointed, he stays until he dies...
...really glad to have those maps when there was a fog over the Aegean," Mercury exclaimed...