Word: peloponnesian
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...banquet in the Peloponnesian city of Kalamata last week, King Paul of Greece casually broke the first rule of conduct for modern monarchs: he expressed a personal political opinion. Horrified by the slaughter in Hungary, the outspoken King called for a relentless fight against Communism, which he called "the enemy of all humanity...
...between Nazi air raids on nearby Coventry, began to specialize in English literature. After classes, Mike, then a lanky teenager, carried a rifle in the Rugby Home Guard, commanded by a Greek professor who was constantly plotting the defense of the school according to the tactics of the Peloponnesian...
...foreigners, a man and his wife, traveled out of ancient Corinth one day last month along the twisting roads that lead toward the rugged interior of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In a tranquil mountain valley, they came to the village of Kalavryta. When the villagers learned that the visitors were Germans, there were sullen mutterings in the village square. A white-haired woman in widow's weeds glared at the man. "He is one of them," she said. "He must...
Also announced were the final castings for the production, which is slated for December 15 and 16 in Agassiz Theatre. Virginia Carrol '51 plays the part of Lysistrata, who induces the women of Greece to protest against the Peloponnesian War by refusing to go to bed with their husbands and any other...
...Year": Anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. The campus Philosophean Society had picked it on Peterson's say-so: he called it "a noble, beautiful, important book." If they get through the first one, he has some more up his sleeve: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland...