Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plenty to tell. The son of a Greek immigrant, he decided early to go for easy money rather than the legitimate proceeds of the small restaurant chain his father had built up from a pushcart. He began by swiping a briar pipe and a pair of sunglasses from a parked car, eventually worked his way up to an armed stickup. Caught and locked up, he proceeded to pry a board out of a fence around Mattapan State Hospital, where he was under observation, and began an ancillary career: jail breaking. When the police got him back, they kept...
Promise & Peril. It is because artists are convinced that the great civic monuments of the future will not be pallid mitations of Greek, Gothic or Renaissance sculpture that they are now boldy taking their huge, industrially produced works to the public. It is a moment dizzying with promise and fraught with peril. For novelty quickly washes away, and bigness for its own »ake becomes merely ponderous. The reason why so much critical attention and acclaim is focused on Smith's work at the present is that, even in mock-up t has the quality of permanence. His .culptures...
...Fish Came Out. After three days, said Benjamin Franklin, guests and fish begin to stink. After 109 minutes, this particular Fish proves an intolerable guest. Not that the film is without distinction: it was directed by Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek). It may also be the homosexiest movie since Modesty Blaise. Two fliers (Tom Courtenay and Colin Blakeley) crash-land their nuclear weaponry on a mythical Greek island and spend the rest of the film in their Jockey shorts playing peekaboo with the villagers. Backing them up are a squad of sylphish soldiers dressed in mufti: the cunningest white booties...
...Today's authoritarian regime must cede its place to free political life," he told the foreign correspondents he had summoned. "The country will be exposed to dangers that will undermine and may even destroy everything if freedom is not quickly restored." The junta, he said, "underestimates the Greek people, and especially the youth, if they imagine that it is possible to intimidate them with arrests and sentences." Thus, unintimidated but clearly courting arrest, Kanellopoulos openly challenged the authority of the junta led by Colonel George Papadopoulos...
...Bothered. The junta is feeling increasing opposition both at home and abroad-and in places it is beginning to hurt. Athens rocked with three separate explosions of plastic bombs in one evening. The largest group of Greek nationals abroad-155,000 workers and students in West Germany-are so anti-junta that they have applied an economic squeeze by refusing to send home their paychecks. From the safety of Denmark, Prince Peter, the cousin of King Constantine, recently called for the overthrow of the military government. The Council of Europe last week condemned the junta for its disregard of human...