Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King is dead," actress Melina Mercouri said last night after a concert sponsored by the Greek Students of M.I.T. at Kresge Auditorium. "His countercoup was a farce...
Billed as "An Evening with Melina Mercouri," the concert became a rally for the restoration of Greek democracy. "Freedom or death," she cried to the tightly packed audience of several thousand. "I believe in democracy and the U.S., they will help us. And even if they don't help us, we will be free again, we will...
Melina in a long, bright orange dress and black boots threw herself into her songs of love and freedom with snapping fingers, with Greek dancing and with tender song translation...
Telltale Lines. Two days later it was Met Vice Director Joseph V. Noble's turn to unwrap another kind of a secret. Appearing before a jampacked museum audience gathered to hear a lecture on "The Art of Forgery," Noble displayed a Greek bronze statuette of a horse, bought by the museum in 1923 from a Paris dealer, that has been hailed by critics as "the quintessence of the ancient Greek spirit." It is pictured in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and dated circa 470 B.C. In fact the horse, said Noble, is early 20th century...
...lost-wax process that produced a seamless, one-piece mold-and a statue with no ridges on it. Another giveaway was a tiny hole on the top of the horse's head. Such holes are common on the life-size marble horses found on the Acropolis: the Greeks fitted spikes in them to keep the birds away. But such a device was purposeless for a Greek statuette, 15 inches high, which would have been shown indoors...