Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many West Berliners, their Greek and Turkish Gastarbeiter are "simpletons," "primitives" and "Dreckschweine" (filthy pigs). Italian and Spanish foreign workers seem to rate somewhat better treatment, probably because their lifestyles more closely resemble those of northern Europeans. Isolated and lonely strangers, West Berlin's 115,000 Turks have created miserable ghettos for themselves in Kreuzberg, Wedding and Neukolhi, the poorest sections of the city...
Despite the hardships of life in West Germany, most Gastarbeiter dread leaving because of the poor economic conditions in their home countries. Advertising for brides is one sign of their determination to remain. Conceded a Greek Putzfrau (charwoman) a bit exaggeratedly: "I know the West Germans wish us to hell, but we stick it out because at home we would barely have enough...
...resolute as Aida, nor as popular as either But composers from Monteverdi to Rich ard Strauss have invariably had a hard time resisting her charms. That is more than can be said for that noted male chauvinist Theseus, who simply dropped her off one day on a tiny Greek isle. Ariadne's latest operatic reincarnation might not be entirely to her liking either: she appears merely as the voice of a missing statue...
...real name was Maria Kalogeropoulos. Born in Manhattan in 1923 of Greek parents, she studied music in Greece-she and her mother were trapped there by the outbreak of World War II. In 1949 she married Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an Italian construction tycoon twice her age. Meneghini sold his business, put Maria on her famous diet and became her manager. He showered her with clusters of jewelry for each new role she sang. But at the Metropolitan Opera, he insisted on receiving her salary in cash before each night's performance. This so enraged Met General Manager Rudolf Bing...
...divorced Meneghini in 1959 to live with Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate. The society columns buzzed regularly for years with accounts of their parties and travels aboard an assortment of yachts. If she was hurt when he abandoned her to marry Jacqueline Kennedy in 1968, she never showed it. As Callas liked to say, "I hate to be pitied, and I never pitied anyone...