Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poems, said the committee, had "unique thought and style and beauty of language." And so last week, Giorgos Seferiades (pen name: George Seferis), 63, became the first Greek to win the $51,000 Nobel Prize for literature. A diplomat (until last year Ambassador to Britain) as well as a poet for more than 30 years, his eyes filled with tears as he called the award an honor for Greece "for which so many generations have struggled, striving to maintain what is still alive in its long tradition." Indeed, it was true, as in Seferiades' Memory II, of two friends...
...where, in a single month, his syndication has climbed to 90-odd papers. Wherever Andy is imported, readers clasp him instantly as one of their own. Said an editor of Istanbul's Hareket Gazetesi: "Andy is as much Turkish as he is English, and he is probably Greek, Italian and Polish too. Our readers got addicted to him in a week. As one of them put it, he is what every man wants to be in his spare time...
...Continental charmer. This sets a zany subplot in motion: Can a lonely New Jersey pill popper who sleeps on a board find enduring happiness with an ebullient Hungarian gourmet who sleeps on a rug? It takes an uproarious culinary trek to Staten Island and several draughts of ouzo, the Greek tequila, to resolve this dilemma. Meanwhile, Corie and Paul have a lallapalouzo of a spat. Corie's mother primes a happy last-act curtain with some classic advice on how to hold a man: "Make him feel important. If you do that, you'll have a happy...
Because of the fine detail of the relief in which the figures are depicted, the monument is regarded as rivaling the fines Greek sculptures of the sixth century...
...lait shirt, off-beige shoes, and foreign correspondent's raincoat. He is also a walking menu of odd goodies. Out of his pockets and briefcase, he dredges and devours bananas, Brazil nuts, cartons of yoghurt and handfuls of macaroons, while flourishing an empty sugarcellar. A Greek by descent, and a private detective by happenstance, Cristoforou spends his life shadowing joy. He is the most antic and mythic embodiment of the Life Force since Zorba the Greek danced off the pages of the Nikos Kazantzakis novel...