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...ATHENIAN ADVENTURE, by C. P. (for Clarence Pendleton) Lee (274 pp.; Knopf; $4), shuns the bearded ancient Greeks for the mustached moderns. A onetime professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Author Lee spent a year (1955-56) as a Fulbright professor at the University of Athens. Author Lee has brought home a lot of generalizations-largely accurate-about the Greek character, which form his book's most engaging part. Politeness demands that a Greek be asked three times before he accepts anything. However poor, he never begs, except for cigarettes. No one hawks pictures of the Parthenon...
While staffers downed farewell toasts of ouzo, a high-octane Athenian absinthe dispensed by the saloon next door to the old building, Sun-Times management rolled up its sleeves for a long-awaited scrap. Restricted to 96-page press runs by inadequate mechanical facilities in the old building, ailing Marshall Field Jr.'s fast-rising Sun-Times had to turn away advertisers 14 days last year, once had to forgo 17 pages of ads. The new presses, capable of turning out 128-page papers, will also allow the Sun-Times to go all out for the added circulation...
Clark pointed to the historical examples of both the ancient Athenian and the modern Western European democracies, which "grew soft" and were consequently taken over by foreign dictators. America cannot afford to maintain this "complacency," he said...
...center of the stage of the ancient theater of Herodes Atticus at the foot of the Acropolis, a frail old lady stood one night last week nodding to the applause of cabinet ministers, diplomats and Athenian intellectuals. The mayor of Athens had just proclaimed Miss Edith Hamilton of Washington, D.C. an honorary citizen, and for an instant it seemed as if she might break down. Instead, Edith Hamilton, just four days short of 90, walked up to a microphone and in a firm voice declared: "I am an Athenian citizen! I am an Athenian citizen! This is the proudest moment...
...Greeks were determined to show their gratitude. In the name of the King, the Minister of Education decorated her with the Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction. But in a sense, the honor of citizenship was a mere formality, for in spirit Edith Hamilton has always been an Athenian...