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Every time he battered his luckless foes into the ground, they gained strength from the pounding and returned to fight, stronger and more confident than ever. Pretty soon the general's string of Pyrrhic victories began to turn into a string of Pyrrhic defeats...
...remaining volunteers were "philhellenes," or friends of Greece, most of them luckless university students from Germany, Poland, Switzerland or England who had taken the idealism of their Greek literature professors too much to heart. When they began to reach Greece by the dozens and then by the hundreds, they learned that no one knew they were coming, and no one wanted them. Devout Orthodox villagers, furthermore, did not share their reverence for the philosophers of the Golden Age, whom Eastern Christians abhorred as pagans. There was nothing for the philhellenes to do except flounder about and die. Enough...
...least one such here. Split with his girl friend, his wife and sons away on unannounced holiday, Nicholas shacks up with his co-star in a new play. As she prattles on in bed, telling endless postcoital anecdotes about her grandmother, Mastroianni stares straight ahead, bereft, bored, glazed, luckless, irked, satisfied but uncompelled, paying dearly now for his pleasure. It is a scene Mastroianni manages with the kind of comic melancholy that comes from depths too seldom sounded...
Though the luckless Radcliffe field hockey team maintained its winless record three times last weekend in the Northeast College Conference Tournament on the fields of Phillips Academy in Andover, the weekend was not all gloomy...
...last March. The Soviets claim that the helicopter, with its three-man crew, was on a medical rescue mission when it lost its bearings over the Altai Mountains. The Chinese insist that the chopper "carried arms and reconnaissance equipment" and was involved in "espionage activities." Since their capture, the luckless Soviet crewmen have been paraded through border towns as centerpieces of anti-Soviet rallies. Now Moscow is worried about reports that China will give them a public show trial and sentence them to long prison terms as spies...