Word: greeke
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Before last summer's short but savage war between invading Turks and the outgunned Greek Cypriot National Guard, Cyprus was an oasis of sunny prosperity in the turbulent eastern Mediterranean. Nearly six months after the end of the fighting, Cyprus today is a wrecked dream-its airports still closed, its economy shattered, one-third of its people refugees in their own land. Greek Cypriot Leader Glafkos derides and his Turkish counterpart, Rauf Denktaş, had hoped to resume their interrupted peace talks during Christmas week but were unable to agree on a basis for further negotiations. TIME Correspondent Erik...
...oversimplifies their techniques are justified, but only in a narrow, technical sense. But other criticism raised by the psychiatrists (out of motives of self-interest, since the play affects one's confidence in psychiatrists in nearly the same way as, say, Z affected one's confidence in the Greek judicial system) go deeper. Psychiatry isn't only a soul-crimping technique for the repression of man's purest, strongest experiences. Shaffer sets up the Apollonian and Dionysiac sides of man in bald opposition. He weighs the comparison by opposing a hygienic professional without strong sexual drives (whose chief pleasure...
...Cyprus, only a fragile cease-fire separates angry Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Though the situation is considerably defused, Greece and Turkey are deeply suspicious of each other's intentions on the island. Both countries maintain large military forces along their common border...
They are hardly standard academic fare, even in the most freewheeling college: the barbecue as an American phenomenon; Little Orphan Annie and Daddy Warbucks as capitalists; All in the Family as Greek comedy. Yet these and other bizarre topics are often the subjects of class discussions, projects and papers at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, the home of the first and largest department of popular culture...
Robert Fitzgerald has advanced a plausible theory: not only had Homer never written anything before the Odyssey; he had not read anything before it. This puts Erich Segal way ahead of any preliterate Greek singer. Segal has not only written other works, including Love Story; he has apparently ransacked every Homeric adaptation from Aeschylus to James Joyce for this musical production, Odyssey. "Why copy when you can steal?" he asks in a program footnote to the execrable production at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington...