Word: greeke
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Because Lysistrata was written two thousand years ago by Aristophanes, it seems "bawdy" and "ribald" more than sophomoric and thin. There's nothing except sexual silliness to its plot about a smart Athenian woman, Lysistrata (Judith Listfield) who forms a league between all Greek women to force their husbands--by withholding sex from them--to end the Peloponnesian war. The Dunster production takes Lysistrata a little more lightly than it was intended (Aristophanes wrote it during the Peloponnesian war) but so long as you expect only a pretext for laughs, you won't be gravely disappointed...
After almost seven years in exile, King Constantino of Greece awaits a political fate rare even for present-day monarchs. By popular vote, Greek citizens will decide next week whether he should return as the crowned head of a democracy or whether Greece should become a republic, effectively ending a royal tradition of 141 years...
Anyone who has ever lived in exile knows the bitterness of having lived away from his own country. My only thought now is that I should be in my country and have our children go to Greek schools and be amongst the people...
...voters placed their trust in the man who had returned from exile four months before to lead them out of the dark years of military rule and the debacle of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. In one of the most impressive mandates ever bestowed on a modern Greek leader, Premier Constantino Caramanlis, 67, and his conservative New Democracy Party swept to victory with 54% of the vote and 220 of the 300 seats in the single-chamber Parliament. "Without bloodshed, without upheavals and finally with the free expression of the will of the people," said Caramanlis after his triumph, "democracy...
...matters include a settlement of divided Cyprus, which Caramanlis declared "the immediate and crucial problem" facing his government. Last week there were some glimmerings of hope that progress could finally be made. After two months without an effective government, Turkey at last had one; on the very day that Greek voters gave Caramanlis his mandate, Turkish President Fahri Korutü named Sadï Irmak, 70, an appointed Senator who does not belong to any party, as Premier of a caretaker regime. Beyond that, the results of the Greek elections were well received in Ankara, which regards Caramanlis as a "reasonable...