Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Berman, Soviet law in a curious mixture of Greek Orthodox doctrines, eastern legal customs, and western common law. It was not formulated until the 1930's and is still undergoing development, the observed...
Athenians were regaling each other with the tale of an encounter between a U.S. Army engineer and a Greek peasant. The engineer was taking a sight through his transit along a rural road when the countryman rode up on a donkey. The Greek watched in mystified silence for some time, and then asked the American what he was up to. "Measuring the shortest distance between this point and that village over there," explained the American. "Well," the peasant muttered half to himself, "that certainly seems a complicated way to do such a simple job." "Is that so?" asked the engineer...
...which a rather nervous and overbred young lady trembled in a "trance of sensuous receptivity." Though brilliantly done, her first poems were excessively, lushly contrived. But as her work developed, another Edith Sitwell emerged, sensitive to human waste and moral agonies. In a play fragment which suggests something of Greek tragedy, she wrote such grandly simple lines as these...
Twice the Greek Government has announced that it has found George Polk's slayers. The first time their announcement fell through. Then, on October 17, the Government accused four men of the murder...
...four are: Adam Mouzenides, member of the central committee of the Greek Communist Party who Communists claim was killed in action a month before Polk's murder while the Government claims he is still alive in Commun...