Word: athenians
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...Athenian Democracy. The Harvard Corporation offered its prescription on Sunday, three days after the police "bust." Five moderate students were invited to present their views to the corporation at the Quincy Street residence of President Pusey. Then the corporation created a new, 68-member advisory board of students, professors and administrators to consult with the president in times of crisis. The corporation reiterated its support of last February's faculty decision to strip ROTC of academic credit and ordered a fresh report on the university expansion program, which is accused by many students of dispossessing poor blacks from their...
...Soldiers Field meeting, called by an ad hoc committee of moderate students, looked like a modernized version of Athenian democracy, set appropriately beneath the neo-Doric colonnade that rings the top of the stadium. Three microphones in the stands let the crowd reply to statements piped over loudspeakers from a moderator's table set up outside one end zone. Red-shirted tellers in the audience counted standing votes, then passed results to yellow-jerseyed section men who ran the totals to girls operating adding machines...
...image as a latter-day Odysseus. Old Argentinian friends describe him as a "Vivo"?a shrewd, live-wire operator behind whose enigmatic, almost Oriental facade lies a volcanic rage and a long memory for a grudge. He is apolitical, and indeed could hardly be otherwise in the volatile Athenian climate. Forced to wheel and deal with the present junta for economic survival, he was last week on the verge of completing a $360 million deal to build a seaport, an aluminum-processing plant (with Reynolds) and a few hotels. Practical-minded Greeks feel that his alliance with a Kennedy...
...vast improvement over the ignorance, superstition, violence and disease of earlier periods. They ask: Are we ready to scuttle the technology that has spread food, home ownership, comfort, education and lei sure beyond any precedent? Would we rather have lived under the laws of the Athenian Republic or the Roman Empire than under constitutions that give us habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious and intellectual freedom and the emancipation of women...
...Gates sparked an otherwise lack-lustre orchestra. Sopranos Jane Devitt and Made-laine Rembock displayed powerful but well-controlled voices, while alto Gail Feinberg sang everything with a pubescent, lower-class tone that was instant comic relief. Tenor Larry Bakst, looking more embarrassed than most in his sparse neo-Athenian garb, nonetheless gave out a pure, well-modulated Russell Oberlin-like sound that was the surprise joy of the evening. The chorus acquitted itself energetically, though its acting and stage deportment matched the sophistication of dollar-a-day extras in Italian gladiator flicks...