Word: greekness
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...truth she was apolitical. She supported the campaigns of Bobby and other Kennedys, but that kind of ambition was not in her blood. After her second husband, the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, died, some would-be kingmakers got together in New York and, hoping to advance Democratic Party prospects, came up with a grand plan to have her run for the Senate. Her reply said it all: "If I could do it three days a week...
...long after Bobby was assassinated, Jackie shocked the world by marrying Onassis, the Greek shipping tycoon 29 years her senior. How could she stoop so far from American royalty? She was seen in all the trite celebrity camera shots: cruising the Mediterranean behind her trademark shades, sunbathing on a Greek isle, smiling broadly in nightclubs. Onassis had a magnetism that had attracted many women before her, including the great opera singer Maria Callas. But money was probably the largest motivation. Jackie had no intention of not living very well...
...enhancing her study of Greek Folkloreand Mythology with the study of Spanish and Frenchliterature, which also count for concentrationcredit...
Sports Trivia Question of the Day: What African country means "land of unburned faces" in Greek...
...remember that he got A's in Greek classeswhich I could never get A's in. He just sailedthrough the difficult classes always making A's"says Robert T. Bledsoe '66, another Adams Houseresident...