Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intelligence is "simplification," and writing is just another way of simplifying the world, John H. Finley '25, former Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus, told a standing-room-only crowd in Harvard Hall yesterday...
Drawing often on Greek literature to make his points, Finely said that his years of studying the Greek classics had given him a clearer perspective on life than he "could have gotten in Ashtabula, Ohio, for instance...
...factories. As a result, Turkish Cyprus depends on mainland Turkey for more than half its budget. Even so, Turkish Cypriots are not nostalgic for their former life. They are keenly aware that they are only 18% of the island's 640,000 inhabitants, and they still fear the Greek Cypriots' enduring conviction that Cyprus is inherently Greek...
...Greek Cypriots in the south are hardly less fearful, but they have reacted to defeat with astonishing resilience. From the new Greek-Cypriot airport at Larnaca, planes take off daily with businessmen seeking export sales of clothes, plastics and wines. Many Greeks lost factories and homes in the north, but they are hustling so hard that per capita income in the Greek part of the island is back to its pre-1974 level ($1,200 per year). Businessman Theo Hadjilambrou, 38, says jokingly, "When we Greek Cypriots see one of our group living a little better, the others work...
...Denktas, is under pressure from Ankara, which is concerned about a $1 billion arms aid bill that is held up in the U.S. Congress pending some progress in the Cyprus negotiations. Makarios needs continued international support to maintain his political position in the face of strong gains by the Greek Cypriot Communist Party. "The Greek Cypriots now realize they can't return to the old Cyprus," says a foreign diplomat in Nicosia. "The Turks now understand they can't act like conquerors. The war is over." When he arrives in Cyprus from Athens and Ankara, Clark Clifford...