Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single Tudorish building, William Barber has had time to absorb the highly principled and highly pedigreed Christianity that St. Mark's preaches. Under Barber, the preaching will go on, with Barber doing a good bit of it himself at chapel services on Monday nights. The son of a Greek teacher at St. Mark's, Barber has taught Greek himself for seven years. Now, he will teach only one class. But he will go on coaching the hockey team, and every so often he will take over an evening study hall, just to keep more in touch with...
Winter came early in the mountains of northern Greece this year. For almost two months the Greek army had been fighting waist-deep in snow along the craggy frontier. Whenever the gunfire died away, the sharp cold silence was shattered by another sound, the voice of the rebel radio. "Greek soldiers, why are you up here in the mountains slowly freezing to death, dying like trapped mountain goats? Whom are you fighting for? Rich people sitting back comfortably in Athens, avoiding their military service and getting richer and richer? What...
Last week the Greek government, alarmed at the effect of this propaganda on troop morale, finally decided to crack down on those who provided ammunition for the rebel loudspeakers. To give bite to its bark, a special court-martial in Athens charged handsome Michael Chryssicopoulos (36), scion of one of Greece's wealthiest families, with draft dodging...
Then the string-pullers went to work. Just a few hours before Michael was scheduled to face a firing squad, the Greek cabinet passed a special order in council which, for the first time, would allow a case of this kind to be brought before a court of pardons. When the government ordered the army to postpone Michael's execution, the military governor of Athens resigned his post in protest. Almost overnight the news reached the northern fron tier. Through the thin cold air of the mountains the loudspeakers of General Markos jeered triumphantly at the government troops...
...love problem, the core of the play, is handled with a skill and understanding which make it the most competent aspect of the production. The clear definition of each of the three important characters avoids the ambiguity which prevails in the Greek camp, and in the attitude toward war. Jan Farrand is gorgeous, graceful, and convincing as a Cressida who wants to be faithful but simply cannot say no. Bryant Haliday plays a tragic Troilus with maturity and restraint. His statement of utter despair when his world collapses about him is impassioned, but unexaggerated...