Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above the fireplace in her Hickory Hill bedroom hang two framed quotations. One, a description of Aeschylus from Edith Hamilton's The Greek Way, reads: "Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens." The other, from Ralph Waldo Emerson, says...
Since the days of Ottoman occupation, village churches have been more than houses of worship. They also developed into centers of Greek patriotism and serve as town halls where local problems can be threshed out and the people protected from the world below before they reach the haven of heaven above. The Premier has already remembered his church at Elaiohorion by giving it new pews and a lectern, an icon stand and a bishop's chair. Pattakos' sister Irene, who still lives in Aghia Paraskevi, recalls their religious upbringing. "Mother taught us to make the sign...
...that ever made him feel stuffed was served at cadet school. A friend recalled last week that Makarezos as a boy "used to hang around when they dug potatoes. He would pick up the culls and take them home for his mother to cook." Poverty was complicated by what Greek peasants, with wonderful exactitude, refer to as "eaters"-the bureaucrats they had to bribe, the merchants who bought their produce at unscrupulously low prices, the moneylenders who kept them in perpetual bondage. In one of his first acts as Premier, Papadopoulos forgave farmers' debts to the national bank...
Searching the Dustbins. In large part, the new Siege bore a made-in-U.S.A. stamp. American Conductor Thomas Schippers was on the podium, and his three principal singers were also American. Soprano Beverly Sills of the New York City Opera made a stunning La Scala debut as the Greek heroine Pamira. Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Home displayed her rich vocal resources as the young Greek army officer Neocle (in the 19th century,female singers were often cast as young men). Puerto Rican-born Justino Diaz of the Met filled the basso role of the Turkish sultan with majesty and brilliance...
Tough-minded as a Greek tragedian, Newby hits a poor anti-hero with every thunderbolt from Olympus. What keeps him from really being a literary sadist is the confidence he conveys to the reader that Townrow, like men generally, has what it takes for bare survival...