Word: greekness
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...were tough and slovenly--and we studied Greek: Studs Lonigan with brains. We did three hours of homework a night and drank too much beer on weekends. We hitchhiked or rode the streetcar and bus to North Capitol and Eye streets, to a neighborhood called Swampoodle. Gonzaga was a proud but touchy school in a squalid neighborhood, with a whorehouse across the street (a source of some entertainment in Latin class, when we would translate Virgil and through the window covertly watch the women emerge to stretch and take the morning sun on their stoop...
...look at Buchanan's face now and see, when it is at rest, the design of a Greek mask of tragedy, a curious effect. When Buchanan speaks I hear the driving, urgent undershadow of menace (promises of dark things, of retribution) that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy conjured; their voices are eerily similar, and, like Pat, Joe McCarthy had considerable personal charm...
...representatives defended the organization in a February 9 article in The Times Higher by saying that the British embassy and the Foreign Office both "drew attention to recent cases of terrorist violence against other foreign cultural institutions in Greece that were associated with what were perceived to be 'anti-Greek' organizations...
...said that the press only consulted the British embassy in Athens about potential reprisals by nationalists, and did not contact the Greek government or any other Greek authorities who would have been more qualified to assess the risks from publishing the manuscript...
Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies Margaret B. Alexiou, for one, said she has written a letter of protest...