Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller has expanded his famed 1955 one-acter about a longshoreman's fatal and incestuous jealousy into a powerful drama that approximates, even though it falls short of, the catharsis of Greek tragedy...
Also Martin Lubin '42, assistant professor of Pharmacology; Paul C. Martin '52, professor of Physics; Richard E. Piper, professor of History; Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin; John G. Terrey, professor of Botany; and James D. Watson, professor of Biology...
...Billionaires J. Paul Getty, 72, and Nubar Gulbenkian, 68, grew about $20,000 richer in the hour they sat absorbing asparagus souffle, boiled salmon and a monologue from their table partner, Actress Hermione Gingold. The party was to launch Gulbenkian's biography, Pantaraxia (loose translation from the Greek: keeping people on their toes), which tells how he enlarged the fortune accumulated in Middle Eastern oil by his late father Calouste ("Mr. Five Per Cent") Gulbenkian. When the two finally got off nose to nose in a corner, did they discuss Pantaraxia or Getty's My Life and Fortunes...
Homer thus described the 20 threewheeled chariots built in a single day by the Greek god of fire, Hephaestus, the master craftsman who dwelt on Mount Olympus. Though ordinary Greek chariots lacked the gift of self-propulsion, the Greeks once led the ancient world in the production of wheeled vehicles. For the past several millennia, however, the Greek vehicle industry has been in quite a slump. In modern times, while such smaller nations as Portugal and Israel have managed to produce autos of their own, Greece has had no automotive industry...
...outside financing. The Pully, which will be powered by a two-cylinder Fiat engine, weighs 1,100 Ibs., costs less than $1,000 and will-according to National-"motorize the masses." Once the Pully gets going, the company will start work on a small passenger line -which, because the Greeks do not quite have a word for it, Victor Kondogouris calls "a Greek Volkswagen...