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Soon afterward charges by General George Grivas, the Greek army commander on Cyprus, shook the Papandreou government like a row of fig trees in a thunderstorm. Grivas said that he had uncovered a plot on Cyprus in which a group of junior officers were plotting to overthrow the monarchy, purge the army of royalists, and install an army brand of socialism. Their code name, he said, was Aspida (shield), but his most damaging statement was that their leader was none other than Papandreou's son Andreas, onetime chairman of the department of economics at the University of California at Berkeley...
...Self. It tries to break down the distinction between the temporal, individual identity of the viewer and the identity of the subject to be contemplated. Accordingly, time-space has a peculiar irrelevance in most Indian masterpieces. In the 18th century Rajput miniature of Krsna and Radha at a riverbank (fig. 1) the artist describes movement as a concrete quality which defines the objects rather than as an activity which the objects engage in. He abstracts a motion into a frozen form; the movement of the swirling water, for example, is captured as an object with no dimension in time...
...first, Indians regarded art as only a means of arousing sensual pleasure. The two addorsed tree dryads of the first century A.D. (fig. 2 showing one side) show both the serenity of Indian art and the erotic sensuality. The Buddhists regarded Nirvana as the only aim of life and rejected everything but strict austerity. This quality is evident in the 13th century seated Buddha (fig. 4) from Nepal...
...paining many small investors. Says a St. Louis spinster: "I'm 60 and announced my retirement last year, when my Rexall stock was 48¾. To day it is 20⅜. Since I can't get my social security until I'm 62, I had fig ured that my stocks would give me two years of living and enough to buy a small house. That's how much I've lost since last November - two years of living and a small house...
...soothes, and Forest Lawn is replete with over 700 statues, including a reproduction of Michelangelo's David, with fig leaf added. Eaton vainly offered 1,000,000 lire to the Italian artist who could paint him "a Christ filled with radiance and looking upward with an inner light of joy and hope-I want an American-faced Christ...