Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Founder Aflak, 53, whose scholarly manner has won him the nickname "The Professor," defines Baath through his career as much as through his words. Born in Damascus to the Greek Orthodox faith in an overwhelmingly Moslem environment (Aflak's father was a moderately successful grain merchant, and his mother, now 75, is still illiterate), Aflak got honors in history at the Sorbonne. In Paris he argued politics with other Afro-Asian students, read Marx, Nietzsche and Jefferson. He says, "I quickly found Marxism inadequate, based on materialism without human and spiritual values, without national consciousness. Nations are only large...
...carefully packed ocean voyage. All this gallivanting-around by Louvre ladies has at least one young Frenchman upset: "If we want to convince the world of the beauty of our women, why do we have to do it with the smile of an Italian and the body of a Greek...
...touch football game (score: 664-538). Columbia students staged an 'all-cause" protest rally with marchers Brandishing such signs as HOOVER IN 64 and WE SHALL OVERRUN. The University of Chicago's pitiful attempt to revive football was protested by purists saving ban-the-ball signs in Greek...
...studied in Germany for two years. "For the first time in my life I was just a human being and not a particular kind of human being." Returning from Berlin in 1894, Dr. DuBois began teaching at Wilburforce College, a small semi-religious Negro institution in Ohio. He taught Greek and Latin, but the subject he really wished to explore was sociology. And in two years this wish, also, was realized. The University of Pennsylvania invited him to do a study of the Negro in Philadelphia. After one and a half years of work he wrote The Philadelphia Negro...
...committing the sin of hubris (overweening pride), the Fates toppled the heroes of ancient Greece. Last week Greek voters defeated the most successful Premier in the country's history, handsome, hard-driving Constantine Karamanlis, who had shown more than a touch of hubris when he said in a campaign speech: "The true political leader does not need the people. The people need the true political leader...