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Though they may not have understood migrants like myself, everywhere in Greece, people kept repeating the word "phyloxenia." A coupling of "friendliness" and "strangers," it promises hospitality. I don't think the offer is ever made falsely or frivolously. Greeks are fascinated and amused by strangers, by differences, though not all tourists fit the category. Hordes of them are off-handedly dismissed as "the American" or "the Germans" or, in one rude case, "those Yugoslav barbarians." It's not hard to understand why: There are simply too many, and they hurry through the same monotonous motions. The people who both...
...copy of each of the papers prepared by participants in College and Institute programs will be kept in the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, hidden on the first floor of the old Radcliffe College Library building that now also houses the Institute. When a gift of the Women's Rights Collection provided the nucleus for a Women's Archives in 1943, the aim of its founders was to collect source materials for easier writing of what was then a neglected history...
...Morimoto also says, perhaps surprisingly, that while no statistics on this question are kept, he believes that most of those who come to the bureau considering...
...Their very existence creates red tape," he says. "They're not as good as they should be. They can't keep accounts the way the agencies want them kept. I have had to bypass them quite often," he says...
...loose and hustled up to the corner to join two other children waiting for their bus. "Hey, maybe we missed it," he was telling them before long, beginning to strut and lecture like a little headmaster himself. "We missed that bus, I'm telling you. It's gone," he kept repeating. And after 20 years, blacks and whites in the cities are still fussing over buses, it struck...