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Twenty years later (yesterday), Stefanian, or "Tommy" as he is known to the hundreds of Cantabrigians who feast daily on his cheese-steak subs and pearls of down-home Armenian wisdom, held forth on the subject he thinks has made all the difference to the small restaurateur over the past 20 years...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Tommy's at 20 | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

...head of the Armenian Antonian order, Archbishop Placidus Casangian, came under especially heavy pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Was Vatican I Rigged? | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...Cold Storage, now at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Ribman's Talmudic scholar is an old, self-educated Armenian greengrocer, Joseph Parmigian (Martin Balsam). He is dying of cancer in a New York hospital yet he has the juices of a Middle East Falstaff flowing in him, and he knows that none die with honor except those who laugh at fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Ferrying on the Styx | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...close friend and collaborator, Physicist Yuri Orlov, 52. A diminutive man with a shock of red hair, Orlov is chief of the unofficial eleven-member Helsinki monitoring committee, which keeps close watch on Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreement. A member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, he had devoted himself in the past year to organizing the Helsinki group in Moscow and other cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUMAN RIGHTS: THE DISSIDENTS V. MOSCOW | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...Byzantine style, with barrel-vaulted naves and horseshoe-arched apses. Unencumbered by the structural requirements of free-standing buildings, the Cappadocian builders developed some unique architectural features, such as unusually broad naves, in their little churches. Some chapels also contain such non-Byzantine elements as conical roofs--typical of Armenian architecture--instead of the more conventional hemispheres...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: Valley of the Fairy Kingdom | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

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