Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marx's favorite Greek words, praxis means the dependence of man on nature...
...British have always been stuffy about race, but the stuffiness has grown with the influx in recent years of some 625,000 immigrants. Whether a man is a blue-black African, a coffee-colored Jamaican, an Aryan Pakistani or even a Cypriot of Greek descent, he is considered "colored" in Britain - and almost invariably discriminated against. Two years ago Parliament passed a halfhearted race-relations act forbidding discrimination in hotels, restaurants, theaters and public transport, but the law is so impossible to enforce that no one has yet been convicted of breaking it. Moreover, it makes no attempt...
...always been a complicated mixture of arrogance and defensiveness. Now, Diva Maria Callas, 43, and her good friend, Greek Shipping Millionaire Aristotle Onassis, were embroiled in a London lawsuit against Greek Shipowner Panaghis Vergottis over just how many shares each owned in a $3.3 million tanker called Artemision II. Maria told the court she thought Vergottis was double-dealing her out of a $168,000 interest in the tub. It was a curious thing for him to do, too, she added characteristically, because "Mr. Vergottis respected me and loved me. There are quite a few people who do that once...
...bone and tooth enamel, its long chains of molecules serve the same purpose as that of steel reinforcing rods in concrete. In mobile tissues' such as tendons, arteries and heart valves, they are like flexible steel wires. And despite the unfamiliarity of its name, collagen (from the Greek kolla, or glue, and pronounced col-uh-jen) has been popular in the humblest homes for centuries. When the hides and bones of animals are boiled down, they yield that denatured but widely used form of collagen, gelatin...
Modulated Nudes. Today, says one of the new luminal artists, the U.S.'s Preston McClanahan, "light is the language of our time." Greek-born West Germany's Heinz Mack declares: "Physics is the same to me as a tube of oil paint to other painters." Explains M.I.T. Theoretician Gyorgy Kepes, a onetime Moholy-Nagy collaborator: "In everything and everywhere, we are surrounded by the technical factors that produce light, and we are no longer frightened by them...