Word: kimon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Kimon Georgiev, 87, Bulgarian politician whose machinations twice made him Premier of his country; in Sofia. More back-room manipulator than statesman, Georgiev was a master of Balkan intrigue; in 1934, with one unsuccessful coup already to his credit, he engineered the overthrow of the government and installed himself as Premier, only to be toppled within a year by loyalist army officers. After collaborating with the Communists during World War II, he was rewarded by again being put in as Premier when the Russians occupied Bulgaria. He was replaced with a hand-picked party official the following year...
...Draft. Kazantzakis died eight years ago at 74. His heirs have spent the intervening years extending his legend with carefully doled out translations of unpublished texts. Report to Greco-is the latest entry in the lengthy procession, which is by no means over: his widow Helen and his friend Kimon Friar, who spent four years translating Kazantzakis' Odyssey, are both engaged in writing biographies. Neither can do the man, or the legend, more service than this awkward, graceless but powerful personal testament...
...book is perceptively introduced and translated by Poet Kimon Friar, who captures the rainbow spray of Kazantzakis' thought, sparkling with paradox and poetry, anguish and joy. Sample reflections...