Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's more conservative, anti-Communist governments welcomed Nixon's election, especially such rightist strongholds as South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal. It was only in Greece, however, that people actually celebrated the event. The cause for Greek enthusiasm, of course, was Spiro T. Agnew, whose father, Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, was born in Gargalianoi in southern Greece. Of the town's present 7,000 inhabitants about 300 are named Anagnostopoulos...
...state that snake handling [Nov. 1] is based on Jesus' words in Mark: 16. Modern versions of the Bible do not include these words in the text. The oldest Greek manuscripts do not include "snake power." Modern scholars generally agree with James L. Price of Duke University that "vocabulary, style, content and manuscript evidence support the conclusion that this ending is no part of the Second Gospel. Later scribes supplied it." The King James translators did not have access to these early manuscripts, so the words do occur in their version...
...which often tempts winners to keep repeating the tactics that achieved their triumphs. Defeat, on the other hand, is both a humbling and a corrective process. It compels a man to examine why he lost and, beyond that, to dis cover what he has left. The great theme of Greek tragedy is the inevitability of defeat and the triumph of surviving...
...emotions between old friends who had become bitter enemies. And in the thunder echoed such words as frame-up, dishonesty, fraud and concocted perjury." Thus, in London, did a member of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords describe the bitter lawsuit involving Maria Callas and two Greek shipowners, Aristotle Onassis and Panaghis Vergottis. At stake was 51% of the shares in a $3,000,000 freighter that Maria said the men had given her as a token of friendship that was to provide for her old age. Onassis never questioned his part of the deal, but Vergottis denied...
Eugene O'Neill will probably be remembered as one of the most flawed major playwrights in history. Aiming for greatness, he often achieved only length. When he tries to make his characters Greek-tragic, they appear just plain accident-prone. The notoriously awkward prose of The Iceman Cometh inspired Mary McCarthy to remark: "You cannot write a Platonic dialogue in the style of Casey...