Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literature, too. To be read, it had to be fascinating; it was the duty of the historian to make it so. He could not do this without being himself part poet. For "in that strange relation of past and present, poetry is always inherent, even in . . . Greek potsherds and Roman stones, in Manor rolls and Parliamentary reports...
...themselves seldom understand and never control the events: British Major Michael Walker, who directs an Athens underground during the Nazi occupation; U.S. Airman Tommy McPhail, whose plane has been shot down over Greece and who wants to be gotten back to his base; royalists and Communists; patriots and plotters; Greek girls and English girls, and one calculating American number in a Red Cross uniform...
Train the Cadres. The book shuttles from one locale to another, from the headquarters of Major Walker's underground to the northern mountains where zealous Greek Communists train their cadres and build their armies, and back to the bloody streets of Athens...
...political maelstrom, personal lives veer crazily. In the underground days, for instance, Major Walker makes the Greek cause his own. At first, he disapproves of the stern British tactics against he Communist-liberal coalition, ELAS. He tries to argue with his superiors ("What are you after," a Brigadier asks, "a Greek army that reads the Statesman and Nation?"). But the major slowly suppresses his disapproval, just as he suppresses his feeling for Nitsa, the Greek girl who has worked beside him in the underground. As the civil war bleeds Greece, Walker's ife begins to seem flat and inadequate...
From now on, each fraternity would have its own wing in one of the new buildings, a separate entrance and a private dining hall. But it would now be squarely under the eyes and thumbs of the university. Moaned one stalwart Greek-letter man: "The moat is just a grave-Wriston dug it for the frats...