Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Malta's 129,649 voters approved independence by a small majority last week, their tiny Mediterranean island joined Malawi, Zambia and Tanzan* in a gaggle of emergent nations that are twisting tongues and ending any pretense of proportional representation in the U.N. Others clamoring for nationhood include British Guiana (pop. 620,000), Southern Rhodesia (4,000,000), Bechuanaland (335,000) and Angola (circa...
...references to Dean Sert's adherence to the "Mediterranean tradition" sounds terribly chauvinistic as reported by you. My point was ... that the honorable and very ancient tradition of the Mediterranean basin had influenced Sert, and that the choice of these materials, colors, and forms was therefore not an arbitrary act, designed merely to shock...
...determined onslaughts of their Greek countrymen. All across Cyprus last week, the 7,000 "peacemakers" of the United Nations wagged their blue berets in impotence and pleaded a simple cause: cool off. But no one on Cyprus would or could listen. The islanders were caught up in a Mediterranean frenzy of nationalism, the product of four centuries during which Greek and Turk Cypriot had been taught to hate, fear and-finally-kill one another. The U.S., which is being accused by each side of favoring the other, cares little enough about the issues, but is being forced...
...Italy, as in other Mediterranean countries, the sacred and the profane exist side by side. There is nothing like a good shrine, for example, to attract a raggle-taggle of sausage vendors, post card hawkers, fortune tellers, pickpockets, shooting-gallery barkers and common gyp artists - all waiting to peel the pilgrims of their lire. And if the shrine honors a particularly popular saint, the traffic in counterfeit relics is brisk...
...gets out. Once at sea, life expands at an enormous rate, but still not fast enough to contain expanding experience. The only way I know to express it is the way a friend described a day he had spent in Greece last summer, which ended with a round white Mediterranean full moon over the ruins at Delphos. He said that day was "More" than Cambridge days--it wasn't just more of his winter experiences, as though you added a hundred days here to make it, but it was on a different level altogether. Some knew what he was talking...