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...heroism, brutality and survival that restore dimension to the century's signature satanic event, the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. What is unusual is that in this holiday season, no fewer than three Hollywood films deal with the Holocaust. Triumph of the Spirit tells the true tale of a Greek-Jewish boxer, Salamo Arouch, who literally fights for his life at Auschwitz. Music Box fictionalizes the 1988 trial of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian immigrant to the U.S. who was convicted of war crimes. And Enemies, a Love Story adapts Isaac Bashevis Singer's 1966 novel about Holocaust survivors sorting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood On The Holocaust | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

...think a small Greek community at Harvard would be beneficial to the student population...We feel we're no different than any other college students, and there is no reason we should remain isolated in an ivory tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

ODDLY, for me the words "love" and "parents" together conjure up visions of blind Greek kings, not filial affection. And I don't think I'm the only one with these reservations...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Saying the 'L' Word to the Folks | 10/21/1989 | See Source »

...George Bush had an advantage in the election because he was speaking English and everyone else was speaking Greek, no pun intended," said Pittman, a Democrat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Producer Says Television Is Key Modern Medium | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

Judging from the make-up of many of the minority fraternities--groups which have traditionally been excluded from the final clubs--this is a reasonable conclusion to make. And if this is the case, the possibility of a resurgence of a Greek system somewhere down the road is not highly unlikely if enough students do feel this need...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Need to Go National? | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

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