Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College of the University of Toronto, the trouble is not so much with God as with the language used to describe him. What Christianity needs, Dewart says in The Future of Belief (Herder & Herder; $4.95), is to "de-Hellenize" its thinking, abandoning concepts of God derived from Greek and Medieval philosophy that are out of accord with the contemporary experience...
...ancient Greeks dreaded the sudden squalls of the wine-dark Aegean Sea, where even the mighty Odysseus was sometimes washed overboard during his voyages. Modern Greeks are less superstitious. Despite gale warnings one evening last week, Captain Emmanuel Vernikos, 50, decided not to delay the departure of the Heraklion, his 8,900-ton auto-and-passenger ferry on its scheduled thrice-weekly 190-mile crossing from the Cretan city of Canea to Piraeus, Athens' port on the Greek mainland...
...searchers. On the dock at Piraeus, thousands of friends and relatives waited for the ships carrying the survivors and the blanket-shrouded bodies. By week's end 47 had been rescued, but the death toll was put at 234, making it one of the worst sea tragedies in Greek history. The government ordered a three-day period of national mourning...
...facade is a Greco-pueblo-neo-Monticello compromise, and like most compromises, likely to please no one. The drumlike walls are sheathed in adobe-colored concrete trimmed with a red brick cornice; narrow porticos add a Federal touch; bronze doors, capped with Greek pediments, are set in four entrances that project to form, in an air view, the Zia Indian tribe's radiating symbol...
When in London, he puts up with U.S. Ambassador David K. E. Bruce; in Manhattan he lunches at the St. Regis with "Babe" Paley, wife of the CBS board chairman. And when time comes to cruise the Greek isles, he goes shipmate with Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Prince Adolfo Caracciolo and Kay Graham, the peripatetic but serious-minded owner of the Washington Post...