Word: greeks
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...tracing back to a fifth century monk named Maro), the Prime Minister a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of the House a Shiite Moslem. The size of the Parliament may vary, but it is usually constituted in multiples of eleven, so that all the faiths, including the Greek Orthodox, the Druse and others may be proportionately represented. The government party and the opposition each form a front to offer a candidate of the appropriate sect for each seat, and though Sunnite runs against Sunnite, and Maronite against Maronite, the issue in last week's elections was really the worldly...
...auctioneer had anticipated, and one of the canvases was sold for the highest known price ever paid for a modern painting. The painting: Gauguin's Still Life with Apples. (1901), a platter of succulent, Cézannesque green apples on an opulent green tablecloth. It went to Greek-American Shipping Executive Basil Peter Goulandris for $297,000 (plus 16.7% in taxes). Mrs. Biddle had bought the Gauguin in 1953 at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery for $80.000. "So what?" shrugged one French woman, about the price and profit. "Apples are expensive...
Life Strength. Bearing a Greek first name ("life strength"), Behn came out of the Virgin Islands, son of a Danish father and French mother, began in 1898 as a $3-a-week bank clerk in New York. With his brother Hernand he ran a small sugar brokerage house in Puerto Rico, in 1914 launched his real career by buying a tiny telephone company. When Sosthenes returned from World War I as a U.S. lieutenant colonel (with a Distinguished Service Medal), the brothers Behn issued 50,000 shares of common stock at $68.50 a share, founded...
...that it constitutes, with scarcely an exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed... The Byzantine Empire was preeminently the age of treachery." It has taken many years to overcome the stigma of Victorian moralism, and Byzantinology will probably never receive the vogue accorded Greek and Roman civilization in the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries...
There must be time for reflection or the familiarity will remain too verbal ... Probably,... a course which chose eight great books would be trying to do too much. A list from which a selection would be made might include Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy...