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...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 In an effort to placate the liberal element formerly represented by Kanellopoulos alone, four old ministers had been replaced by four new ones.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...
...Woolf is memorable for clarity as well as iridescence. A devoted artist, she was no political revolutionist, but she had her veins of wrath. She wrote: "We may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated in that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born." She added: "Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. . . . . Women have [always] had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves." With joy she remarked how at last "the sons and daughters...
...Constantine Cotzias' missions in the U.S. is to present the Gold Medal of Honorary Athenian Citizenship to President Roosevelt, to whom it was voted last March. Greece's King George II, who now lives near Pretoria, South Africa, holds only the Silver Medal...
...play directed by Robert B. Nichols '41, describes the efforts of an Athenian hero to end the Peloponnesian war through divine intercession. The hero, played by Nichols mounts to Olympus on the Greek rocket ship, the "Dung Beetle...
...play is concerned with the attempts of a young Athenian hero (Bob Nichols, '41) to halt the Peloponesian War by getting aid from the deities. The play follows his endeavors to get Peace out of the hole into which she has fallen. Especially featured are the gyrations of that Aristophane creation, the dung beetle, which Nichols rides to heaven...