Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King Constantine dramatically announced Sunday that the Greek military junta will allow 20 experts to draw up a constitution within six months. Although it represents the first concession made by the reactionary rules since the coup a month ago, the plan does not guarantee a return to a representative government...
...experts writing the constitution will be anything except puppets of the regime, nor has a date been set for a popular referendum on the proposed constitution. The junta has made no commitment to hold elections even if a majority approves the constitution. And no provisions exist in case the Greek people are allowed to, and do, reject the proposals...
...State Department has refused to apply pressure forcefully or openly against the regime. By controlling the Greek press and radio, the junta has led the urban literate and the rural folk to believe that the U.S. was solidly behind the coup. Secretary McNamara's recent warnings to the Greek minister of defense were misrepresented in the Greece newspapers as "understanding approval...
...Christian thinking begins by rejecting the Greek dualism of body and soul. The old idea of a soul that departs from the body at death "makes no sense at all," says Roman Catholic Theologian Peter Riga of California's St. Mary's College. "There is just man, man in God's image and likeness. Man in his totality was created and will be saved." Such theologians emphasize God's presence in the world. "God is the source of creativity and change and human selfhood," says Harvard's Harvey Cox. In sum, the process of salvation...
Alumni gifts have allowed establishment of many of these series. One of the oldest, and the largest, is the Loeb Classical Library, a 400-volume presentation of Greek and Latin works with the original text on the lefthand page and the translation on the right. Supported by a $300,000 endowment, it is the bequest of James C. Loeb '88, a bachelor banker who after his retirement in 1901 lived in a Bavarian castle surrounded by books...