Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third, and I have forgotten all about it." Forceful Tampering. Diplomats at the U.N. would be equally happy to forget all about the Cyprus problem, which last week was returned to the Security Council after U Thant's failure to provide a solution through backstage jockeying. The Greek Cypriots, led by their President, Archbishop Makarios, stubbornly insist that any draft resolution contain a reminder that all U.N. members must refrain under the Charter from tampering by force with the territorial integrity and independence of other members-a device by which Makarios hopes to bar Turkey from interfering with...
...what these last might be ranged from repelling an invasion by Turkey to attacking the 7,000-man British garrison to trying to wipe out some of the isolated Turkish Cypriot positions, such as the schoolhouse in Polis where 700 men, women and children are surrounded by Greek Cypriot partisans. A British diplomat said, "Frankly, we don't know what's behind it," but added with feeling that anything that made Greek Cypriot irregulars into a disciplined force and kept them in barracks was "probably a good thing...
With the blessings of Jean Jacques Rousseau's atavistic philosophy, les animaliers abandoned the Greek and Renaissance art, which idealized man, and started ennobling the beasts. Previously, animal sculptors had showed animals as they had seen them, stilled by captivity. These new sculptors-now on view at Manhattan's Bernard Black Gallery-set their beasts in the great outdoors, with sinews rippling and manes ruffling. The bronze beasts battled for their lives on their tiny pedestals: bears brawling, a panther slaying a stag, a lion crushing a serpent, a jaguar gnawing at an alligator, an elephant charging...
...Redbook (officially titled General Education in a Free Society) described rather precisely the form the lower-level courses should take. The Humanities course was to cover intensively somewhat less than eight books selected from a list which "might include Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy...
...years, Constantine has been carefully groomed to take over the throne. He was commissioned in the army, navy and air force, and often sat in when his father talked with government ministers. Tall, lean, and athletic, he won an Olympic Games yachting gold medal in 1960, becoming the first Greek Olympic winner in half a century. Last year Constantine became engaged to his cousin, 17-year-old Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, whom he will marry next January. "Our engagement was sudden, not planned beforehand by our parents," he said. "It was the first time in my life I took...