Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pump up the "self-esteem" of Hispanic schoolchildren (the purpose of history is not to make people feel better), but because it accords with a large truth shrouded, at present, in omissions and lies. Columbus himself has been presented as Castilian, Catalan, Corsican, Majorcan, Portuguese, French, English, Greek and even Armenian. He was, in fact, Italian: born in Genoa in 1451, the son of a weaver...
...letters, which chapter officials said were distributed Tuesday, characterize fraternity brothers as Harvard men "dedicated to the resurrection of Greek life at a school where the social life can be pretty bleak...
...science courses, which are restricted to the Science Center, have never attained the legendary status of the lectures in the 1200-person capacity Sanders Theater, where Ec 10, Gen. Ed. 105, and Literature and Arts C-14, "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization" are taught...
...economy of his means is stunning. Form floats to your eye out of velvety blackness, and each drawing is a record of becoming. Seurat's personages -- friends like the painter Aman-Jean, strangers glimpsed in the street, women with the mannered gravity of Greek kouroi -- have an immense dignity and distance. Watch how a mere lightening of tone on a woman's face in profile, in the studies for La Grande Jatte, records the head's twist toward the light; or how wittily the curve of a little girl's highlighted slouch hat reflects that of her back. Such style...
...standoff between the center-left press and the conservative government of Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis, the editors of seven Greek newspapers went to jail last week for terms ranging from five to 10 months rather than comply with a new law prohibiting them from publishing statements from terrorists. The anti-terrorist legislation, which took effect last December, was precipitated in part by the 1989 assassination of Mitsotakis' son-in-law by the terrorist group known as November 17. The law's intent is to deny publicity to the organization, which regularly sends long-winded statements to newspapers...