Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 1967, Andreas had emerged as the most forceful, dynamic figure in a political party which seemed destined to sweep the upcoming national elections-the Center Union Party headed by his father, George Papandreou. The elder Papandreou had been removed as Prime Minister in July 1965 by King Constantine-who fabricated a "constitutional crisis" especially for the occasion-and the country had since been ruled by a series of puppet "caretaker" governments. But when constitutional law impelled Constantine to grant an election for May 1967, the showdown between left and right became only a matter of time...
...democratized the trade union structure and moved against the electoral corruption and police terror which had characterized the conservative regimes. That in itself would have been enough to antagonize the Palace and the American embassy, committed as they were to their own political and economic constituencies. But when the elder Papandreou began to clean up the army, the Palace decided that he had gone a step...
...atrocities of the period, they are conveyed in formal compositions that amount to decorations, not disasters. Plague-ridden corpses are artistically strewn on smooth fields; soldiers flash evil grins in cartoon style-one even ecstatically licks the blood off his knife. Clavell has doubtless been studying Pieter Bruegel the Elder: as the soldiers descend into the only unspoiled valley in Europe, the peasants disport themselves with picturesque energy. But always there is the obtrusive sense of the camera, always the feeling that every improvisatory step has been choreographed to death...
...point of this new plan is to tax all the departments, to make them all responsible for the goal of bringing black students to Harvard," J. Petersen Elder, dean of the GSAS, said after yesterday's meeting...
...Even their letting me present my plan represents a change in their original attitude that the procedures were set for good," Pettigrew said in reference to Phelps, who is also a lecturer in German, and John P. Elder, dean of the GSAS and professor of Greek and Latin...