Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Leon Berard, 84, member of the French Academy and Raymond Poincare's political protege, a classical scholar who horrified liberals when Minister of Public Instruction during the early 1920s by decreeing compulsory study of Greek and Latin, later (1940-43) was Vichy Ambassador to the Vatican; of influenza; in Paris...
...writer living in Paris (he had fled Germany just after the Nazis seized power in 1933). Cultured Comrades Regler and Malraux had to listen while Maxim Gorky key-noted a writers' jamboree with piffle that reached the lower depths of unreason. Gorky's dialectical materialist account of Greek mythology defied parody, e.g., Icarus was not a parable of hubris but a prototype of the Soviet rocket, and poor God himself "an artificial summing up of the products of labor...
...Heritage and Its History, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. In impeccably stylized dialogue, the autor writes her 16th ostensibly comic novel, brimful of the vanity of human wishes and the tragic fatality of ancient Greek drama...
...earl's achievements, none matched the way he pushed forward his handsome young Greek nephew, the fair-haired but indigent Prince Philip of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucks-burg. He arranged his nephew's first meet ing with 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth, watched over their friendship until he saw Philip become consort to the Queen...
...average German that a recent survey showed that only one man in three and one woman in six now knows what a loaf of bread costs. There are so many more jobs than workers that Bonn's Labor Ministry plans to bring in 100,000 Italian, Spanish and Greek seasonal laborers this year. Bonn's prediction for 1960: another 6% increase in the nation's G.N.P...