Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wealthy and aristocratic American rises from a bed furnished with Irish linen sheets, brushes his hair with English bristle hair brushes, dons a Viyella shirt and Savile Row suit, brightens his outfit with a Carnaby Street tie, and goes down to a breakfast enlivened by English marmalade or Greek honey...
...Sitting on the hill of Lycabettus, overlooking the valley of Athens," writes Greek City Planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis, "I can see early Monday morning the first dark clouds building in the lower part of the valley, where the industries are. It grows, it covers the middle and lower parts of the city. Gradually it reaches the eastern part, and by expanding in height it covers the rock of the Acropolis and the Parthenon. By then everybody in the city of Athens has had to breathe the polluted...
Weekend retreat for tired Greek businessmen...
Honey-Lou's Greek shipping-millionnaire husband was presently in Porto Hercule with a certain notorious Greek actress, known to the American public for her role in a daring movie. Honey-Lou had no objection to such occasional flings. Leonidas had more than enabled her to savour exotic, decadent, romantic people and villas. (And beds.) Her nephew was Georgio...
...wealthy. Better yet, with both. So in the midst of preparations for a Washington society wedding, shift briefly to a southeast slum and give a two-page summary of what it's like to be poor. And have the wedding be between one of the depraved and a young, Greek innocent. Her purity of thought (which borders on the feeble-minded) will really point up the futility of it all. And then, glory of glories!, have the Deprived One murder the beautiful bride of the Depraved One. One victim of the system destroying another. Only the causes of the whole...