Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier, he believed that his army needed the crossing points on the Yugoslav border, and the training and supply bases behind it. For a while, he made this view prevail. The Cominform, however, had a blindly loyal follower in Moscow-trained Nicholas Zachariades, secretary general of the Greek Communist Party. At a recent meeting of Cominform leaders in Sofia, Politician Zachariades was told to get rid of Soldier Markos. It was reported that several of Markos' loyal lieutenants had been purged along with...
...statuettes he collects, Gulbenkian neither confirms nor denies the stories that describe him variously as a descendant of Armenian kings, an ex-Turkish rug peddler, a lace merchant. He will say little more about his tastes in art, except that he has been collecting old masters, sculpture, rare books, Greek coins and Persian rugs since early in the century...
...self-transcendence. Koestler believes that the western world owes its troubles to the "hypertrophy of the self-asserting drives with a corresponding decline of the self-transcending impulses." There were times, he holds, when man was more capable of being both self-assertive and self-transcending (in the Greek and Renaissance civilizations) and by being a bit of both he managed to be a more balanced, stable creature. But he is sure that today man is either overactive or over-passive-or a dissatisfied neurotic who plunges first one way, then the other...
...years since, the style* of Eimi (pronounced ay-me-"I am," in Greek) has become slightly more familiar; it offers no real trouble to an attentive reader, and on occasion adds to the sense of immediacy. On the other hand, Cummings' point of view, his simple reliance on what he himself felt, saw and heard, is rarer than ever-at least among travelers permitted to make the same trip nowadays...
With low-hanging stratus (i.e., solid layer) clouds, Project Cirrus was just as successful. Langmuir told how the planes had drawn Greek letters and "racetrack" patterns in stratus clouds by dropping small amounts of dry ice (see cut). Sometimes the cloud was dissipated so completely that blue sky showed through the gaps. Langmuir believes that dry ice can be used to clear clouds from over airports...