Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lambda: More Than a Greek Letter...
Master Class has Caldwell playing Maria Callas not as singer but as instructor, imperiously advising--when she can stop talking about herself--a trio of aspiring opera stars. Although her own days onstage are over, she remains the most famous Greek woman in the world, and she has the most famous Greek man, Aristotle Onassis, for her lover--or had him, until his eye veered to President Kennedy's widow. At times, McNally arranges for the classroom to dissolve away and for Callas to address us in private monologue, revealing a tremulous woman whose fame provides some compensation...
...Washington, what's a woman to do? For Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the answer has been to use will, charm and provocation to become one of the capital's leading conservative lights. "In the last few months, I started literally waking up with these columns," she purrs in a cadenced Greek accent. Prominent newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, have been happy to publish her. And while Senate majority leader Bob Dole, whom she's pronounced unelectable as President, might wish she had rolled over and gone back to sleep or back home to Santa Barbara, California, Republican Washington is agog...
...conference in 1993. (She spoke on the question "Can Conservatives Have a Social Conscience?") It was ideological combustion at first sight, or something like that. Gingrich immediately invited her to speak at a Republican conference a month later. A Republican aide there recalls Gingrich's reaction to the statuesque Greek immigrant: "My clearest recollections were with the rapture in which he held her. He was like a puppy dog." She quickly became a member of Gingrich's group of "Big Thinkers," invited to most of his retreats. "The area where we connect intellectually is this area of replacing the welfare...
...lofty misanthropy of an elitist who can write off entire countries with the toss of an aphorism. "The whole of Greece," he writes, "seemed to me a cut-price theme park of broken marble, a place where you were harangued in a high-minded way about Ancient Greek culture while some swarthy little person picked your pocket." Then there is Albania, with its blighted trees, hectoring beggars and vandalized shacks of houses. This Third World country in Europe's midst, Theroux notes, "was brutalized, as though a nasty-minded army had swept through, kicking it to bits...