Word: athenians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolis Cathedral for a distant relative, Sweden's Prince Gustaf Adolf (recently killed in an airplane crash), the crowd lining University Boulevard neither cheered nor booed; they clapped politely. The people were still willing to withhold their judgment on their King-but not for much longer. Said one Athenian indifferently as the King's grey-green Rolls-Royce passed by: "Oh, I suppose he will go to England after the next plebiscite...
...show was sponsored by Mexico's culture-conscious President Manuel Avila Camacho, who last year decreed an annual national prize for arts and sciences. (1945's prize went to an author, rotund little Dr. Alfonso Reyes, for his Criticism in the Athenian Age.) This year's 20,000 pesos ($4,140) will be awarded to an artist, plus 5,000 pesos each for the best example of painting, engraving, sculpture and architecture on exhibition...
Permanent Adolescent. Housman seems essentially to have remained an adolescent, all of his 77 years. At their weakest, his emotions had the innocent, arrogant self-pity, the horribly magnanimous sentimentality, the incontinent irony, of which extreme youth is capable. At their best, they had the Roman stoicism and the Athenian sentience which are sometimes the glory of the very fine-souled when they are very young. In most of his verse their blend is irreducible, but it is fertilized by a minor yet miraculous poetic gift...
Recognized as a world authority on Athenian history and inscriptions, Professor Ferguson is especially noted for his discovery of the basic law, known as "Ferguson's Law," upon which chronology of the later Greek history is based. He discovered this law while working as a graduate student at Cornell...
...stodgy government of Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos, onetime rich Athenian banker, was still in ferment. In an effort to placate the liberal element formerly represented by Kanellopoulos alone, four old ministers had been replaced by four new ones. Greek Army Fascists had been tossed out of the high command of Free Greek battalions in Egypt and Syria. The Government has promised to resign when Greece is liberated, and weak-willed King George has likewise promised to "conform to the will of the people...