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Word: greeke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inevitable cliche--"speculation mounts"--can easily be applied to the prospects that of several Greek professors and ministers, who have contributed millions to Harvard may receive the call...

Author: By Rev. CURTIS J. miller, | Title: Honoraries | 6/15/1976 | See Source »

...openers, they look like a winning pair of Jackies, one the actress, the other the Onassis. Jacqueline Bisset, 31, having signed up to portray someone very like Jacqueline Onassis, 46, in a European-made movie, The Greek Tycoon, confessed to reporters that she did not know much about the deal other than that 1) she was "moved after reading the script," and 2) "It's not the greatest role in the world." She may have second thoughts, since the tycoon will be played by that world-famous non-Greek, Anthony Quinn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 14, 1976 | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

Seven black actress-dancers, costumed in solid colors with the stark simplicity of a Greek chorus, deliver dramatic monologues about being black, blue, and bruised by love. The tension of the evening stems from two separate strands of emotion. On the one hand, these monologues are portraits in embittered pain, the basic proposition being, "He done her wrong." On the other hand, they demonstrate the concentric power of love in a woman's life. If Playwright Shange had chosen an epigraph for her play, the one most suited to it is the one that in her militantly feminist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: He Done Her Wrong | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...latest European crowned head to make a bicentennial visit to the U.S. is, in political terms, probably the most interesting. Accompanied by his attractive Greek-born wife Sofia, Spain's King Juan Carlos I, 38, is scheduled to arrive this week for a four-day ceremonial visit to Washington and New York City. Americans will be primarily interested in appraising the inexperienced monarch who is trying to guide Spain out of Franco's reactionary past into a progressive future, without disrupting the country and without antagonizing its emerging political factions, right and left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A New King With Clout | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

Guidelines flowing from the bureaucracy have increasingly insisted on racial balance at the expense of other considerations. An Ivy League university was informed by HEW that it did not have enough women in its department of graduate religious studies. The university replied that a reading knowledge of Greek and Hebrew was required. HEW quite literally commanded: "Then end those old-fashioned programs that require irrelevant languages. And start up programs which minority groups can study without learning languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: E Pluribus Unum? | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

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