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Nonsense, said Oliver, who was also a lawyer on the outside. "Socrates wasn't guilty in our eyes, but he was in Athenian eyes." Lawyer Oliver did admit, nonetheless, that Socrates had found "a new method of arriving at truth." "Aha!" cried Theo triumphantly. "If he arrived at truth, then he can't be guilty...
...most venomously-General Van Fleet, who was referred to as "Murderer Van Flit." Towering, husky Van Fleet, who led a regiment across the Normandy beaches in 1944 and rose to be a division commander in four months, was not alarmed by the threat on his life, but the Athenian authorities were. How had the note-bearer escaped the vigilance of two detectives constantly on guard in the general's corridor...
...raised spirits and stilled fears. Europe felt new confidence that the strong hand of the U.S. would continue to bear it up. To the French, the victory of "Harry le souriant' (smiling Harry) meant that the U.S. people had moved closer to them in spirit. In Greece, Athenian grey-marketeers renamed the street where they sell U.S. goods "Uncle Harry Street." Said a Tel Aviv newspaperman: "He is a simple human being, a man of the people. We would rather trust our fate to him than to the cool, calculating diplomats...
Three Drinks & a Dream. At the root of Europe's misconceptions about the U.S. is what Visson calls the "Athenian complex." Europeans, he thinks, regard the U.S. somewhat as the Greeks regarded the rise of muscular, uncultured Rome. The Greeks told themselves (as Europeans do today) that these new barbarians across the water might have more money-but they would never be really civilized. European intellectuals have always claimed that those American nouveaux riches are uncouth. They have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world...
...Alexander the Great, "moved by a nostalgia for the purity of ancient Athenian civilization, became a collector of antiquities...