Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RATHER like a stern father rewarding good behavior, Premier George Papadopoulos last week returned several previous liberties to the Greek people. He was observing both the Easter season and the second anniversary of the coup that ousted the previous government and brought Papadopoulos and his fellow army colonels to power. He was also trying to head off criticism of the Greek regime from the NATO ministers' meeting in Washington. Announced the Prime Minister: 1) freedom of assembly and association will be restored; 2) homes will be off limits to policemen without warrants; 3) press censorship will be reviewed...
...measured words were those of onetime Greek Diplomat Georgos S. Seferiades, 69, who under the pen name George Seferis won the 1963 Nobel Prize for literature for his lyrical poetry and his "deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture." Seferiades has lived in seclusion in Athens since retiring as ambassador to London in 1962. For the past two years he has published nothing in Greece as a political protest against the military regime running the country...
...pray to God that never again may I find myself under such compulsion to speak," said Seferiades, who then sent copies of his protest to Greek newspapers. Boxed in by censorship, no editor printed it. Knowing the message would nonetheless surely reach the outside world, the government issued a 500-word countercharge notable only for its ineptness. Quoting "authoritative circles in Athens," the statement, issued in English as was Seferiades' own message, accused Seferiades of being a Communist agent. It also suggested that he had spoken "to counterbalance and neutralize the inexorable law of wear and tear and oblivion...
Among the material in his files are research papers showing that there are Fibonacci numerical patterns in the meter of works by Virgil and other Roman poets, and Fibonacci relationships between the different sizes of mosaic patterns in the floors of Greek and Roman ruins. There are studies showing that the ratio between any two successive larger Fibonacci numbers is 1 to 1.618-the same as the ratio between the sides of the "golden rectangle," a form that is traditionally used by artists and architects to produce effects that are most pleasing...
...Harold Prince tied it all together with a finesse the likes of which have not been seen since Jerome Robbins' heyday. Herschel Bernardi is the man of Crete and Maria Karnilova is his French lady friend. They have a strong assist from gutsy-voiced Lorraine Serabian, who heads a Greek chorus. At the IMPERIAL, W. 45th...