Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flare-up of Greco-Turkish tension was a reminder of the days when thousands upon thousands of Greeks and Turks lost their lives in bloody conflict after World War I. NATO officers have always been careful not to let Greek and Turkish units meet in mock combat, for fear that they might begin firing in earnest. Now that Greece was embroiled with both Britain and Turkey, the Greeks last week prudently decided to withdraw all their forces from NATO's scheduled war games in the Mediterranean...
...Geography has triumphed over history, environment over heredity," says Siegfried. "The New World has lost all sense of reality of contact with Greco-Roman culture, which is characteristic of the formation of Europe, and if it remains fundamentally Christian, it is in the Jewish rather than the Greek sense, following the testimony of the Bible rather than critical argument." Today, says Siegfried, "American society appears as a first-class piece of organization ... a collective community with mass discipline and large-scale teamwork," devoted to ever greater production and ever higher standards of living...
...unabashed realist, whose heavy-handed oils make up in impact what they lack in grace (TIME, Nov. 6, 1950). To critics who say that his plunging horses, beheaded bulls and heavily laden tables are symbols borrowed from Picasso, Lorjou angrily replies that his inspiration comes direct from El Greco, Velásquez and Goya...
Maurits Cornells Escher (rhymes with mesher) looks like an El Greco cardinal in modern mufti. A gaunt, stooped 56, he wears his white spade beard, sport jacket and grey flannels with the air of a severe fellow who knows what matches what. Odd yet precise matches are Escher's forte. An exhibition of his woodcuts and lithographs in Washington last week featured flights of birds set off against schools of fish, lizards spinning in polyhedrons through the night sky, eerie figures climbing both the top and bottom sides of stairs. His art, as clear and cold as snowflakes...
...great music? By serving up serious music in easily digestible chunks, Victor hopes to attract a whole new audience to classical fare. Whether friends can be won for classical music this way is dubious; the experiment is comparable to editing the tougher passages out of Shakespeare or redrawing El Greco to fatten his perspective...