Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circulating literature of "such a low grade" as to be "vulgar and wholly un-American." It was, he said, a case of "bigotry" and "insipid intolerance." The literature included a pamphlet entitled "The ODDyssey of George Christopher," and somehow Christopher took it to be a slur on his Greek ancestry. What it did do was trace Christopher's switches in party registration-from Republican to Progressive to Democratic to Republican-since 1930. Said Christopher, whom the pamphlet labeled "Weathervane George": Goodie Knight directly approved the contents of the pamphlet...
...Asian countries." Among Tunisians a once unalloyed admiration for the U.S. is giving way to the impatience voiced by President Habib Bourguiba: "Without U.S. financial aid, France could not continue her war of repression in Algeria. In our eyes this makes you an accomplice of France." In Athens a Greek politician, angered by U.S. refusal to intervene in the Cyprus quarrel, hotly declared: "No government which sincerely loves freedom can choose neutrality in a matter where freedom is at issue...
...first anti-Jewish mass meetings and rounded up 267,000 signatures for his appeal to Bismarck to register all German Jews and bar them from key jobs. When Nietzsche found out that Forster's outfit was quoting some of his own diatribes against the values held sacred since Greek and Jewish times, he was furious at what he considered misappropriation of his views: "This damned anti-Semitism!" he wrote a friend. "It is the reason for the abrupt break with my sister." And to another: "I will not be associated with anybody who has any part in this lying...
...room of Providence's VA Hospital, bearded, longtime expatriate Author Elliot (The Last Time I Saw Paris) Paul, 67, a lifelong agnostic, now dying of heart disease, called for a priest, crossed himself with three fingers in the sign of the Trinity, and became a member of the Greek Orthodox Church. "Teach me to pray," he asked the priest. "I want to pray...
...stop-the-H-bomb" mood: "It's a great wrench. We just had a family reunion, and there were floods of tears, diluted with champagne." To Herald Tribune Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid, he wrote: "I feel a little bit as though we were a species of minor Greek chorus, which was separating just as the drama approached some sort of climax. But I agree with Stew that his own career has to come ahead of the interest of being a Greek chorus...