Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases and other disputed claims. The Iowa-born son of a country doctor, he entered the University of Southern California Law School after his parents moved to Long Beach. In private practice, Ball soon earned a reputation for a phenomenal memory. In a case involving a dispute over a Greek businessman's will, a family retainer told the court through an interpreter that the deceased had once said of a nephew: "I am scared he will kill me." Remembering his classical Greek from college days, Ball suggested that the proper translation could be: "I am afraid my relations will...
...Brooks tells of how investors got fleeced and shows some of the major changes in the social ambience of Wall Street, most notably the temporary replacement of the old-line leadership by a crew of sideburned young "gunslingers." Throughout, Brooks steadily returns to his grand theme, which is Greek tragedy: financial hubris-exemplified by the belief that companies and brokers could go on forever peddling mountains of essentially worthless paper-leading swiftly and blindly to disaster...
Dartmouth was a real pressure game for Harvard. And the prevailing question circulating in Cambridge was could the Crimson come off an emotionally and physically draining victory over Cornell to defeat a sub-par version of a Dartmouth team they had not beaten in five years. Jimmy the Greek thought they could. Boston bookies thought they could. So much for the oddsmakers. Dartmouth humbled Harvard...
Bullet Eyes. In Washington, his songs were an infectious blend of Moorish folk chants, tough cafe tunes and lyric ballads of the Greek islands. Most were narrative in style. Some were set to his own poems (Put off the light! The guard is knocking./ Tonight they will come again"), others to those of the late George Seferis of Greece and Pablo Neruda of Chile. All were tuneful, simple, direct, almost thunderous in their momentum - and impossible to resist. Theodorakis conducted the concert with windmill waving of the arms that bespoke the amateur maestro but was nonetheless effective. When...
...tour at Manhattan's Lincoln Center (with the permission of the striking members of the New York Philharmonic), he told his audience: "We are in absolute solidarity with the struggle of the American musicians." Thus it is all the more surprising that Theodorakis, a sworn enemy of Greek Dictator George Papadopoulos, plans to return to Greece in late December to test the new move toward liberalization there (TIME...