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Though they may not have understood migrants like myself, everywhere in Greece, people kept repeating the word "phyloxenia." A coupling of "friendliness" and "strangers," it promises hospitality. I don't think the offer is ever made falsely or frivolously. Greeks are fascinated and amused by strangers, by differences, though not all tourists fit the category. Hordes of them are off-handedly dismissed as "the American" or "the Germans" or, in one rude case, "those Yugoslav barbarians." It's not hard to understand why: There are simply too many, and they hurry through the same monotonous motions. The people who both...
...devotion to the country and service grew in the great military academies, Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel of South Carolina. Recalls Atlanta Journal Editor Jack Spalding: "There was a time when all Southerners understood the need for military force. It may be educated out of them in places, but there are still the basics here. We are close to the soil, more religious, and know what guns are for and why they must be used sometimes...
...nation that it was possible to change despite deeply held prejudices -and to achieve at least the beginnings of racial amity. Other parts of the U.S., without consciously turning to the South, began to long for some of its values: family, community, roots. There was a new, only half-understood bond of sympathy between the only part of America ever to have lost a war and other Americans who had met their first defeat in Viet Nam. Summing up the Southern ability to outlast adversity, William Faulkner declared in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: "I decline to accept...
...vice president's selection of Gibson to head the Office of Fiscal Services, an offshoot of Champion's 1973 reorganization of services once grouped in the comptroller's office. Gibson was not, Champion adds, a "theoretical systems guy," but he instead had "actually lived in an university environment and understood well" the problem of student financial...
...vice president's selection of Gibson to head the Office of Fiscal Services, an offshoot of Champion's 1973 reorganization of services once grouped in the comptroller's office. Gibson was not, Champion adds, a "theoretical systems guy," but he instead had "actually lived in an university environment and understood well" the problem of student financial...