Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Andreas G. Papandreou, son of deposed Greek prime minister George Papandreou and a former cabinet member, came to Boston yesterday to enlist support for the Panhellenic Liberation movement...
...Panhellenic Liberation Movement is a coordinating agency for the Greek resistance," Papandreou said. "We want to unify the Greeks abroad," he said...
...Greeks abroad are not all free to join such a movement, Papandreou said. "Greek students get pressure from embassies and consulates to stay out of anti-junta protests." The "pressure" according to Papandreou consists of threats of being sent back to Greece, or of hardships for family members left at home...
...style fraternity house. There Tussman, four professors (one each from law, mathematics, political science and poetry) and five graduate assistants led a complete "intellectual immersion." Based loosely on a great-books-oriented program that Tussman studied under Wisconsin's late Alexander Meiklejohn, the first year concentrated on such Greek writers as Homer, Herodotus and Plato, followed by the Bible, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Milton. In the second year, students turned to early American thought, the Federalists and John Locke, moved up to contemporary U.S. writers, ended with urban problems. The program carried credits but no grades or examinations; when...
...shipped out and published abroad), in which Tarsis made it clear that only in a madhouse can a Russian speak his mind. This time he was allowed to leave Russia. But while he was on a lecture tour in England, his Russian citizenship was taken away. He became a Greek national, and now lives in West Germany. The Pleasure Factory is his best book to date. It shows that he has read his Chekhov and Turgenev with profit-and that neither greed nor the other passions they wrote about have been abolished in the new Russia...