Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their long-running game of oneupmanship, Greek Shipowners Aristotle Onassis, 61, and Stavros Niarchos, 58, have vied in everything from outfitting their yachts with art treasures to transforming their private islands into playgrounds for the beautiful people. But nothing has been more spirited than the rivalry between the onetime brothers-in-law-over Olympic Airways, which Onassis set up in 1957 after outbidding Niarchos for exclusive rights to run Greece's national airline...
Olympic lost money at first, but Onassis has since built it into a flourishing carrier. Meanwhile, he has twice persuaded the Greek government to extend his original 20-year concession, first to 1986 and then to 2006. To Niarchos, that was too much. In a formal appeal, he argued that the extension beyond 1986 should have been open to fresh bidding. Last week Greece's highest tribunal rejected Niarchos' appeal. "There is no proof," said the Council of State, "that the petitioner will preserve his interest to take over the concession at that distant date." Of course, there...
...Georgetown, Rabbi Kraft likes to surprise his stu dents by pointing out that like many a Jewish immigrant's name, Jesus' was changed to fit more comfortably on alien tongues. His real name was Yehoshuah, which was translated as 'Iησοûs in Greek and lesus in Latin; the latter, in turn, be came Jesus. No one expects the campus trend to dispel the doc trinal differences between Judaism and Christianity. But as Michael Zeik, a Jew ish professor at Catholic Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., puts it, such scholarship will help Christians...
...directions are in Latin, the musical indications are in Italian, so the libretto should be in-right, ancient Greek. The plot is Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, the story of a Titan who was chained to a rock in Scythia, so the setting should be-right, a jungle...
...original Greek text carried to an extreme his longtime interest in ancient (Subjects. The orchestration was bizarre even for a man who is noted for unorthodox noises from the pit: no violins, huge phalanxes of wind instruments, four banjos, and no fewer than 42 percussion pieces-not including the four pianos, whose keyboards were smashed by forearms and whose strings were struck with cymbals and strummed with fingernails. And the score-simple, severe and static-was the furthest extension yet of Orff's belief that music should be set to words, not the other way around...