Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Pentagon officials have uncovered Walter Lippmann's unwisdom on the 1947-49 Greek crisis-"My God, Walter would have given away Greece too!" [May 14]-they would do well to pursue their researches further back, to the days before Pearl Harbor, and in a more immediately relevant area, Asia. They would discover that Mr. Lippmann consistently opposed American aid to China in its life-and-death defense against Japanese aggression, insisted that the United States' vital interests were confined to the Atlantic, and warned that, under no circumstances should this country allow itself to become embroiled...
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. This early Arthur Miller play about the family of a Brooklyn longshoreman is infused with elements of Greek tragedy; a splendid cast gives a moving performance...
ZORBA THE GREEK. Anthony Quinn presses strong red wine from Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, with Oscar Winner Lila Kedrova as the pathetic old jade who is drinking her final toast to life...
...sulphate, Josiah found what he wanted. Jasper ware grew so popular that the English used it for shoebuckles, chessmen, perfume vials, bell pulls, architectural ornaments, even a mortar and pestle. Most famous of all Josiah's jasper ware was his limited edition of the Portland vase, after a Greek vase supposedly made in Alexandria in 50 A.D. Last year a rare slate-blue Portland vase sold at auction for $8,600. Josiah would get $1.50 for a fine jasper cup and saucer; today it would sell for one hundred times as much...
...Bowdoin Prize in Classics to Avotins 2G, of London, Ontario, for to Guido Bonini for Greek; and Christopher P. Jones 3G, of London, an honorable mention in Greek...