Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gubernatorial race, the Democrats have put on a rare show of party unity that has helped to narrow the initial advantage of Republican Incumbent John Volpe, 57, over the Democratic candidate, former Attorney General Edward McCormack, 43. Volpe, whether dancing Zorba-style at Greek picnics or playing boccie with the paesam, is a more spirited stump performer than the reserved McCormack. Also going for Volpe are the state's prosperity and a generally impressive record in office. McCormack's own poll, completed last week, gave Volpe a tenuous advantage...
Agnew (his Greek immigrant father changed the name from Anagnostopoulos) has been an able, low-key administrator of Baltimore County. His campaign started slowly: for weeks he orated on such rarefied topics as air pollution. Now he says he's "getting a little mad." Agnew, who advocates open-housing legislation for new apartments and subdivisions, is trying to connect Mahoney with the Klan, says Maryland must choose between "the courageous flame of righteousness and the evil of a fiery cross...
Ekistics. Doxiadis, 53, is the articulate Athenian who raised the eyebrows of less Demosthenic city planners by coining the term ekistics (derived from the Greek word for home) to dignify city planning as "the science of human settlement." He describes his own methodology for charting an urban area's future as the "isolation of dimensions and elimination of alternatives," or, more handily, I.D.E.A. No mere talker, Doxiadis has helped resettle 10 million humans in 15 countries. His projections for Detroit are part of a $2,000,000, three-stage report on the city's future presented last week...
...Summer. As the faithful friend, longtime Svengali, and now the husband of Melina Mercouri (they were married last May), Director Jules Dassin periodically attempts to trap some of her wild Greek energy on film. His tempestuous Trilby, in her sixth Dassin movie, proves just one thing: the family that plays together does not alway make a Never on Sunday...
...Greek bearing gifts of a Mercourial nature can only squander them in this lurid, leaden adaptation of a novel by Marguerite Duras, who also wrote Hiroshima, Mon Amour. While the screen moodily changes color, turning from light sepia to silvery grey and all but blushing with shame, Melina plays up the purple of her role as a sort of sick Samaritan. "How do you stond dee pain?" she wheezes, speaking of life itself. "Geev me a dhrink, Paul." But liquor is the least of her problems. Voyeurism and incipient lesbianism are enough to make any young matron restive...