Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...color, a lot of narrative." Such books are all to the good, for when they are done by sensitive writers, they can achieve an almost poetic understanding of places they cover. One such series is the Companion Guides to four European cities, the South of France and the Greek Islands. Another, less poetic but more of a guide, is H. V. Morton's lively historical tour of Spain, Italy, Britain and Ireland...
Back in Beira the Ioanna V, which had switched from Greek to Panamanian registration in mid-voyage, was boarded by the Panamanian consul, who informed the captain that the ship's Panamanian registration had been withdrawn, leaving the Ioanna V a ship without a country. Later, the Beira port captain placed the tanker and its 18,000 tons of oil under Portuguese control, which could mean that either Portugal was honoring the embargo by impounding the ship or simply making it easier to unload the oil. Whichever the case, the British intend to see to it that the Ioanna...
...like a scene from an early novel by Evelyn Waugh. An intellectual dandy, hardly a year out of Oxford and already weary of the world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...
...Tony Tanner plays it with the same cockney assurance. Quadrupling as his wife and his Russian, American and Japanese sweethearts, Millicent Martin is a model of cool English efficiency. The rest of the world's population, grouping and regrouping on a semicircular set, is portrayed by 23 exquisite Greek-chorus girls. Fortunately, every attempt at social significance disappears on the instant behind a frieze of smiles, swiveling hips and inch-long eyelashes...
...American." But then she admitted: "Freedom is so nice." It is indeed. It means virtual divorce from U.S. income taxes as well as from Meneghini. As an American citizen living abroad, Callas had to pay on all her earnings over $25,000, a considerable amount. As a Greek, she has to pay U.S. taxes only on what she earns...