Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VERY many people have tried to define our form of government. We have been called by some "a democracy without a Parliament." Others have defined us as a "dictatorship with democratic ideas." But the definitions are not interesting. What is interesting is that we believe that a Greek state within the framework of democracy must be developed now. In order that a democracy may exist, it must be borne by political parties. Before such permission is given, we must be certain that the citizens who will form the basic material of these parties have become mature citizens...
...tell you this: A revolutionary council never existed. What existed was the consciences of those people who undertook the responsibility of fulfilling the aims which induced the armed forces to lead the Greek people to revolution. As regards the democratic spirit in the Cabinet, you may collect information from any source, and if you find any one person who can tell you that an opinion or at titude has ever been imposed on the Cabinet, I permit you to call me publicly a dishonest...
...leading hardliners. Most notable: ex-Colonellonnis Ladas, who lost his post as chief of the country's internal security system. Isolated from their former colleagues in the army, the hard-liners had no alternative but to bow to the Premier's orders. Consolidating his control over the Greek military, Papadopoulos appointed Lieut. General Odysseus Anghelis, a reliable career officer, to the newly created post of Chief of the Armed Forces...
...story is from the legend of Orpheus. Nicholas Urfe (Michael Caine), an overread, underbred London dropout, accepts a teaching job on a Greek island. In Caine's adroit impersonation, Urfe explores sensuality from Alfie to Zeta, but along the way he stumbles into a labyrinthine underworld presided over by an occult genius-The Magus. His journey begins one day when he finds a book of poems open to the lines from Little Gidding. They are to become the theme of his life...
Metatheatrical Master. Death is not all that is false. Conchis can re-create portions of his life at will. Nazi soldiers emerge from the forest; Greek villagers dead for over 20 years reappear; Urfe's girl (Anna Karina), a suicide, comes to life. Angry and bewildered, Urfe cannot penetrate his host's series of masques. Is Conchis a wizard who can make people materialize from his mind? Is he only a psychiatrist, trying to bring Lily back to sanity by enacting her fantasies in life? Is he a master of metatheater, in which everyone must play a part...