Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Making of the President, 1964, White (2) 3. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (3) 4. Games People Play, Berne (6) 5. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (4) 6. Manchild in the Promised Land, Brown (9) 7. Markings, Hammarskjold (5) 8. Never Call Retreat, Carton (7) 9. Report to Greco, Kazantzakis 10. My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, Lincoln...
...Juliette Greco commit suicide? It seemed incredible to Parisians, as rumors spread that existentialism's chanteuse-muse had tried to exist no more by swallowing a "massive overdose" of barbiturates. By the time Juliette got back to her Left Bank town house from the Ambroise-Paré Clinic, reporters and photographers were jamming the street outside. "I am against suicide," she snapped, "and against pharmacists." Juliette's explanation: she'd just toppled over after taking two sleeping pills and a tranquilizer to try to relax...
REPORT TO GRECO, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The tormented Greek writer's autobiography is a powerful, personal testament and a key to the sources of his obsession with God. Kazantzakis died when the book was only in first draft, but the occasional rudeness and awkwardness show the raw energy in his creative gift...
...Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (2) 5. Markings, Hammarskjöld (5) 6. Games People Play, Berne (4) 7. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (7) 8. The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, Levant (8) 9. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (9) 10. Report to Greco, Kazantzakis...
...under the influence of Byzantium, whose hovering saints were stripped of flesh, transcendentally vaporous, symbols of life beyond death. So otherworldly was Byzantine art that by the time Charlemagne was crowned, images of the sacred figures had been banned for 74 years. Eastern iconoclasm had emphatically blotted out the Greco-Roman exaltation of living man. The new Carolingian Emperor personally set about to change the art of his times...