Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perform the world's crummiest jobs. "I would take my place behind the horses . . . I'm into traffic," says one laborer shyly. Before settling down to shovel manure, George I takes a wrong turn on his way to the Crusades and does a stint in a Slavic salt mine. The following Georges are doomed to play follow the leader through the centuries, picking up the trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables and chairs of ghetto blacks who default on their payments...
...speaking style and colorful analyses of Greek figures, most notably the historian Thucydides, who served as the topic of several of Finley's written works. Referring to Finley's "imagined interpretations of such heroic figures as Achilles and Odysseus," longtime colleague Albert Lord '34. Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, emphasizes Finley's "elegance of expression...
Albert B. Lord '34, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, advises reading...
Keeping watch over the Soviet spy vehicles were about 200 Iranian Islamic Guards, armed with West German G-3 and Soviet Kalashnikov rifles. Fair-haired, Slavic-featured Soviet officers, looking incongruous in Iranian army uniforms, moved back and forth between the mobile units...
Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, and a member of the committee, said he did not expect to received a written answer from the Polish Military Council. "It's not their custom" to respond to foreign protests, Baranczak said, but he added that the pressure of opinion, "especially from influential parties at Harvard," could be important...