Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides' parable of disastrous ambition is charged with timeless emotion, and Director Michael Cacoyannis keeps this production in swirling, stylized motion. Greek Actress Irene Papas brings to her role of Clytemnestra a smoldering tension that erupts in a cry expressing the pain of a woman whose husband destroys their daughter for his own ends...
Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder never played pro football. He has only seen one game this year, and if he so much as said hello to a pro coach or player, somebody would probably call a cop. Jimmy the Greek is an oddsmaker-one of those faceless fellows who set a betting line on pro games for bookies and their clients...
There was certainly nothing irresolute in the way the Greek junta put down King Constantine's feckless attempt at a countercoup. When it comes to less pressing matters, however, the junta is subject to rule by committee- with all the divisions, hesitations and compromises that that implies. The shadowy power behind the top three leaders is the Revolutionary Committee, composed of 38 young officers who pass on most of the government's decisions. Because this council is divided into moderate and hard-line factions, the junta last week seemed to be somewhat uncertain and confused about just what...
...American wife and four children at their home in an Athens suburb for Christmas. The fifteen officers convicted in the 1965 Aspida conspiracy, which allegedly sought to depose the King and establish a neutralist socialist regime, were also released, as well as nineteen former members of the now disbanded Greek Parliament...
...Colonel Ioannis Iadas, the chief of internal security, overruled Premier Papadopoulos and scaled down the dimensions of the amnesty. Some 2,500 political prisoners remained in custody, including the hard-core Communists on the prison islands in the Aegean Sea and Leftist Composer Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba the Greek), who, according to Papadopoulos' own words at the press conference, was to have benefited from the amnesty: "He will even write a song for the revolution...