Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During its brief existence, the Republic of Cyprus has been paralysed politically. Conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriotes has hamstrung the attempts of the Makarios government to legislate. Vice-President Kutchuk has vetoed income tax legisaltion, for example, so that the central government is supported only by extralegal taxation in the Greek community...
What finally melted Franco's heart was little eight-day-old Elena Maria Isabel Dominica de Silos, daughter of Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos, and Greek Princess Sophie, and, most important, Don Juan's first grandchild. With that in mind, Franco allowed the would-be king to return for 36 hours for the christening, then dropped in on the affair and had a rare 20-minute chat with the exile. What did they talk about? Well, Franco has five grandchildren himself...
...laws of Greek tragedy are that when the worst has happened, something worse will happen, that the unbearable exists so that man may bear it, and that life is a problem to which the only solution is death. Rarely have these inexorabilities been brought home to a modern audience with more telling force than in this masterly revival. In the leading roles, Mildred Dunnock, Carrie Nye and Joyce Ebert deserve the compliment of the truth, that they are worthy of the playwright. If there is a more perfect method for re-creating this great tragedy than Director Cacoyannis has displayed...
America America is an affecting and dramatically dynamic idea that shapes up as one of 1963's more disappointing films. Director Elia Kazan, born in Turkey of Greek parents, wanted to tell the story of every immigrant who ever sought refuge from oppression on America's shores. With obvious sincerity, Kazan the writer-producer chose as his model a character he could warm to: his uncle Avraam Elia, who at 20 fought his way out of Anatolian Turkey onto a westbound ship. But Kazan the director-perhaps from habit-does his own script a disservice, rendering...
Leading a cast of Greek and American performers is Stathis Giallelis, an Athenian discovery who earns his billing on personality alone. As the would-be immigrant, Stavros, he is all boyish, self-effacing smiles when his father sends him off to Constantinople to invest his family's meager fortune and thereby save them from Turkish persecution. Everything goes wrong. Stavros is robbed and humiliated by a roguish Turk, whom he finally murders. He slaves as a hamal, hauling back-breaking burdens on the Constantinople waterfront, only to be robbed again by a prostitute. He is shot and left...