Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Military and civilian security officials in Greece, they claimed, were regularly using "medieval tortures" on prisoners. Marketakis, a member of an anti-junta resistance organization in Crete, described beatings with sandbags (which leave no marks) and with plaited steel wire. Meletis, a member of the leftist Greek Patriotic Front, spoke of the fa-langa, in which the victim is strung up head down, then has the soles of his feet beaten. "If you refuse to confess or if you pass out," said Meletis, "they set you down with numbed feet on a cement floor on which cold water has been...
...worked, the scheme might have been a public relations coup of sorts for the ruling Greek junta. Two months ago, acting on a Scandinavian complaint that the Athens regime had unjustly suspended constitutional rights in Greece and was permitting the torture of prisoners, the Human Rights Commission of the Council of Europe, an 18-nation organization created to foster social and economic progress, called a special closed session to hear testimony. The Greek government complied by sending several heavily guarded ex-prisoners to the hearings in Strasbourg -but only after ordering them to deny all allegations of torture...
...prize is given by playwright Robert Anderson in memory of his wife. Judges this year were Harry T. Levin, Irving Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature, Cedric Whitman, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, and David Wheeler, director of the Theatre Company of Boston...
...piped in by Muzak, and the lyrics are insipid. The characteristic tone of Levantine lament is scarcely heard, since music that weeps and words soaked in pain might dismay the theater-party ladies. The dances have the look of old folk dances-any old folk. Greek fire is missing. Zorba danced because words could not contain his vaulting spirit. Bernardi clodhops, while the supporting cast dances by a timetable as if it were catching a train...
...comes from his sec-ond-to-second awareness of death. That is why the widow is murdered by the puritanical villagers, and why the apparatus that operates the lignite mine crashes in total disaster. Such is, says Kazantzakis, the destiny of man and all his works. This is the Greek tragic sense of life, and from it springs Zorba's credo: to live in, for and by each moment as if it were the first and the last. With this musical, one soon wishes each moment was the last...