Word: athenians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ones. Since Truman had proclaimed the U.S. policy of defending Greece, most Greeks had asked themselves: Why not sit back and let the U.S. and Russia fight it out? One young conscript, an Athenian grocer's son, put it this way: "Why does America help us at all? They have it all worked out, the big ones. We are just holding the position for them until they are ready...
...site of the museum which the American School hopes to build, the diggers found a treasure which looked like a page from a history book. Thrown away and buried deep were several hundred ostraka-bits of broken pottery on which Athenian voters once wrote the names of public men they wished to elect or to exile. Among the names on exile ballots were three which still echo in history: Themistocles, Hippocrates, and Aristides...
...Much in American history happened before 1776 or 1492. The birth of Christ in Palestine still arouses a deeper emotional response in Americans than even the Fourth of July. . . . The Athenian Plato, the Spaniard Cervantes, the English Shakespeare, the German Goethe, the Frenchman Balzac, played a large part in shaping the American mind. By excessive emphasis on American history, literature and civilization, we are cutting ourselves off from the broader, deeper, more humane currents in our own American tradition...
...commercialization" of tutoring vis-a-vis the Athenian gentility of Harvard, I agree that it is indeed fortunate for free education in a free society that university teachers are not paid and so may speak the truth as they see it, not caring a whitney what powers they offend. Lester Cramer...
...Athenian democracy had been exhausted in the struggle with the hard and sterile tyranny of Sparta. One lesson rose from the ruin of Athens: democracies need leaders who, trusting the people, have the courage to tell them what they must sacrifice to remain free. Secretary Marshall has never made a major speech on foreign policy. His fellow citizens, far from indifferent to his views, would listen avidly to what he had to say about their responsibilities in the light of the U.S.'s newly emphasized world leadership...