Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek Line, in cooperation with Operation Match dating service, is running a singles-only computer dating cruise from New York City to the Bahamas . . . When you buy your ticket your name will be fed into a computer and when you board the Olympia you will be introduced to five or six match mates. Take it from there." The bit of text, from a new, youth-oriented magazine called 25, sounded intriguing; the accompanying photographs of frolicking girls in bikinis were positively tantalizing. TIME Reporter Carey Winfrey, 27 and single, took it from there and set sail on the Olympia...
FIRST stop on the dream assignment: the office of the Greek Line to buy the ticket ($195 double occupancy, $265 single) and fill out the computer questionnaire. Samples of the 110 questions: "Of the following men, I most admire: (1) Winston Churchill (2) Albert Einstein (3) Henry Ford (4) Babe Ruth. My ideal date should be: (1) Very sexually experienced (2) Moderately sexually experienced (3) Somewhat sexually experienced (4) Sexually inexperienced (5) Doesn't matter...
...Taverna lounge, where a Greek go-go quartet rocks till 2 in the morning, a 26-year-old stock-exchange clerk sets his sights on a life-begins-at-forty redhead, while on the dance floor a New York City detective (41) is cheek to cheek with a schoolteacher (32) from Pennsylvania. A deck below, his inhibitions all but obliterated by bon voyage champagne, a portly ex-footballer from Fordham (class of '56) runs the length of the ship, yelling jovially: "The cruise is canceled! The cruise is canceled...
...boss." A wild-eyed Denver merchant corners Milgrim in a hallway and through clenched teeth mutters, "Don't think I don't know what's going on here. The filth, the filth." A legal secretary from Long Island expresses her distaste for Greek cuisine by insisting upon ham sandwiches and malted milks, and one cynic suggests that the ship is really a floating mental hospital, the stewards actually keepers, the passengers patients. They are doomed to sail forever...
...obscured the fact that one of the Apostles-Simon the Zealot, as later Evangelists confirm-was an admitted member of the movement. And he argues further that Judas Iscariot may have been a Zealot as well. The two "thieves" who were crucified along with Jesus were, as the original Greek attests, really "brigands"-a common epithet for the Zealots. Even the Gospels hint that on the night at Gethsemane some of Jesus' disciples were armed, which may have been the reason that he had to be captured by stealth...