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MARIA CALLAS (Angel 3502, 3508). Bellini's 1 Puritani and Puccini's Tosca: the Greek-American soprano in her prime...
...neither democratic nor ultimately stable. For this reason, Greek Americans in major cities, usually near academic communities, have formed Committees for Democracy and Freedom in Greece to pressure Congress and the Administration against the junta or any royalist constitution that would not restore all political liberties and free elections. These committees, well aware of the King's anti-democratic practices in the prejunta period, are lobbying against further U.S. alliances with the King. A guiding voice in this anti-junta movement has been The Hellenic-American, a new bi-weekly Greek-American newspaper operating out of New York and circulating...
...Hellenic-American is significant because with the exception of one small publication at Berkeley, no other Greek-American paper has aggressively opposed the junta. An amazing and saddening phenomenon has been the mellowing, almost warm, attitude of Greek-American newspapers towards the junta, not to mention their respect for the King. With this gaping hole in communication, The Hellenic-American has to perform several functions: pressure the Administration, report otherwise unattainable news from Greece, provide in-depth analyses of diplomatic pressures, and link activities of Greeks...
...protesting group, which included students and professors from Harvard, M.I.T., B.U., and Northeastern as well as members of Boston's Greek-American community, also sang a four minute chorus from the Greek national anthem in the street below the consulate...
Petrakis' John Doe is Leonidas Matsoukas, a beefy and ebullient Hellene who, like the author, is a member of Chicago's Greek-American community, locally known as the Bush. For a fee, Matsoukas counsels mortals on such mundane affairs as impotence, wrestling, enuresis and masturbation. He also speaks exclusively in the heroic style; everyone in the book does. "Some say you are dead, that all this is mask and charade," says Matsoukas, addressing God. "I will tell you what I think has happened. Heaven has become for you a shadowed cavern of emptiness and longing. Your glory...