Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested that the foreign policy of the Eisenhower Administration reflects the prevalence of juvenile delinquency in the U.S. The second, dealing with Queen Elizabeth's recent tour of Portugal, commented: "Elizabeth II is sorry that the world is not able to appreciate the hanging by the neck of Greek patriots in Cyprus or the butcheries of the Portuguese in Goa. We regret the low level of intelligence...
...Many. From the start, it opposed those who thought that educators should be content to cram the three Rs down the throats of the many and devote their best energies to the college-bound few. While such subjects as Latin and Greek began to retreat, the N.E.A. called for more and more vocational and physical education. Since World War II, it has backed the movement for safety education, driving lessons, audio-visual aids, and the whole host of courses (how to get along with the family, to buy clothes, to behave on a date) that go under the name "life...
...village of Murnau, where they bought a house, called to this day the Russenhaus, with a fine view of the Alpine foothills. Kandinsky held court there too. "Every day is like a festival," Macke wrote. "At Kandinsky's we laugh all the time. He laughs like an ancient Greek, so loud and free, really Homeric...
...mystery surrounding the sale of the Edward G. and Gladys Lloyd Robinson art collection for $3,250,000 (TIME, March 4), was finally cleared up. Not very silent on a peak in St. Moritz, Greek Shipping Tycoon Stavros Spyros Niarchos let it be known last week that he is the collector for whom Manhattan's M. Knoedler & Co. Inc. bought 58 paintings and a bronze from Movie Tough Guy Robinson...
Meanwhile, with the help of Salvador Dali, Niarchos is making another sort of contribution to art. The Spanish painter is painting the Greek magnate. Explained Dali: "I wanted to paint him as I first saw him when he visited me at my home on the beach near Barcelona. He swam in from the Creole, and I saw him rising from the sea like a Greek...