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Greek friends attribute Caramanlis' cool personality to the fact that he is not really a man of the Mediterranean but of sober northern Greece, where temperaments are less ebullient. The son of a Macedonian schoolteacher who died when Constantine was 18, he went to work to support the family, selling insurance to pay his way through law school in Athens. "Life was rough for us," he later recalled. "I was determined to succeed in my studies to show my gratitude to my family, and to be able to defend people, peasants and shepherds, who were even more unfortunate than...
...culling the Journal of Irreproducible Results and the Journal of Jocular Physics as well as more sober publications, R.L. Weber, an associate professor of physics at Penn State, has turned up more than 100 examples of the scientific mind at play. Against considerable odds, the result is a collection of short pieces that are funny and reassuring. If the future cloners and behavioral conditioners of society have a sense of humor, all may yet be well...
Black Binders. The sober spirit of the hearings was embodied in two thick black binders placed on each of the 38 committee members' desks. One was an annotated index of the documentary or taped evidence accumulated by the committee staff in the six months that it has probed 41 allegations of wrongdoing-including obstruction of justice and complicity in the Watergate cover-up?by Nixon. The other binder held the material that Majority Counsel John Dear's staff presented to the committee during its first three-hour session. It amounted to a recitation of the events that...
...short time, at least), India and Burma have not yet reached the point of no return and can still "stop short of an energy stroke." But while people in developed countries speed onward blindly addicted to ever-increasing energy consumption, he tells Third World peasants to remain sober and "to abstain from something they have yet to taste." They must stop modelling themselves after the rich nations and abandon their impassible dreams of "overdevelopment...
Gris responded best to objects, whether mask or tool, vessel or furniture, which were artifacts already. He dealt with them as signs rather than as Investigations of reality. Even a painting like Violin and Guitar, whose hot crimsons and acid stripes of green wall paper go far beyond the sober grays and ochres that Gris normally favored, tells us nothing of any significance about the nature of musical instruments; nor can it be said to push the analysis of form as far as Picasso or Braque were taking it at that time. But it is a marvelously controlled arrangement: frozen...