Word: crete
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ethnologically speaking, it's a wise child indeed who knows his own father. Were the Greeks really the founders of Western civilization? The Greeks themselves looked to Crete, whose earlier Minoan civilization is newly being appreciated with the deciphering of the script called Linear B. As scholars, but few laymen, know, Crete, not Greece, was the land of the myths-of Zeus and the Titans, Prometheus, Hyperion, Orpheus and Hercules. It was on Crete that Daedalus built the labyrinth and Icarus took off for history's first air crash. The vast Palace of Minos, whose foundations were laid...
Stringing these and other speculations on a roughly chronological chain, Author Wendt ranges the world in space and time. He examines the theories of the Diffusionists (who believe that all civilizations derive from a single mother culture, whose ruins have been found in Iraq. Crete, India and Egypt), but he favors the Convergents (who think that the countless cultural similarities in the development of widely separated peoples, such as South America's Incas and Asia's Cambodians, were caused not by physical contact but by the psychological similarity of all men everywhere). He denigrates racial purists' illusions...
...mincemeat of the Halberdiers. Trimmer, the cowardly leader of a commando raid that was organized for publicity purposes, is puffed into a phony hero and sent on a tour of factories to bolster civilian mo rale. Guy and a group of fellow commandos are sent on an operation in Crete, where three of them desert (including the commanding officer), and one Waugh original known as Ludovic murders two of his comrades-in-arms...
Eleven dollars will buy a one-way air ticket from Athens to Crete, and still another unseen aspect of the Greek way: Candia's fragrant food bazaar, the Minoan ruins near Knossos, and the high Lasethi plateau, crammed with hundreds of white-sailed windmills. In any of the little plateau villages, a traveler can buy his lunch merely by hailing, say, the butcher, who will put a table outside and provide wine, bread and cheese, while curious, good-natured Greeks in baggy trousers, sashes, boots, brocaded vests and fierce mustaches gather round and ask the stranger's name...
Keys gets his cases all over the world. A doggedly inquisitive scientist, he is as familiar a figure in the vineyards of Crete, the mountains of Dalmatia and the forests of Finland as he is on the University of Minnesota campus. Money to support his wide-ranging studies comes from the U.S. Public Health Service ($100,000 a year), the American Heart Association ($17,000), the International Society of Cardiology, six foreign governments and about a dozen other no-strings sources. One of his chief fund raisers is Dr. Paul Dudley White, President Eisenhower's heart specialist, who, together...