Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue tiles. ¶ Thirty 7½-ft.-high bas-reliefs from the frieze of the Pergamon Altar, a vast Hellenistic masterpiece commissioned by King Eumenes II in Asia Minor about 180 B.C. ¶ A roomful of Botticelli drawings illustrating the Divine Comedy. ¶ Hundreds of top-rank Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman and Chinese statues and ceramics. ¶ Cranach's Judith and Holofernes, Bosch's small Temptation of St. Anthony, Hals's Mulatto...
...Hebron." But either deliberately or through ignorance, he read the tablets in the wrong order and with the wrong cast of characters. This resulted in various anomalies, such as the story of Eve's creation from Adam's rib-"equaled in perversity only by the post-Homeric Greek legends of Athene's birth from the head of Zeus, and Dionysus' birth from his thigh." For in all primitive myth, says the Goddess' Graves, "the female, not the male, gives life, even if she is no more than a primordial Scandinavian cow licking stones into human...
Supplementing his knowledge of philosophy, "Owen is an expert on Greek science and apparently finds its impossible to teach philosophy courses without integrating the scientific aspects," Firth commented...
Arms are so much a part of the scenery, violence so much an accepted condition, that the news is chronicled in Nicosia's newspapers like the day's temperature readings: the British sergeant's 17-year-old son shot in the back of the head by Greek Cypriot EOKA terrorists; the trusting, 62-year-old British importer killed by gunfire as he stepped into his car; the three terrorists blown up by their own crude bomb; the pencil bomb that went off last week in a British airman's kit bag just before...
Across the unhappy island, barbed-wire barricades cocoon key buildings, seal Greek and Turkish Cypriots into separate quarters. British Tommies man machine guns on the minarets of Turkish mosques. Cyprus' nightly lullaby is the baying of search dogs. When the sirens signal curfew, the island's economy is paralyzed (loss per day: about $120,000 of Cyprus' gross daily income of $290,000). Factories are closed for lack of labor and materials. But no sooner does the curfew lift than terrorists kill another victim...