Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ZORBA THE GREEK. The heart and soul of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are brought roaringly to life by Anthony Quinn as the wicked old brute who teaches a timid essayist (Alan Bates) to put away his books and plunge into real trouble...
...Pulaski, Tenn., six young ex-Confederate officers, looking for something to occupy their time, got together to form a club. Like college kids, they gave the club all the trappings of a fraternity-mysterious rites, initiations, secret words. For a name, they hit on the Greek word for circle, kyklos, gave it a few twists and came up with Ku Klux Klan. For kicks, they made robes and hoods out of bedsheets and pillowcases, and took to riding sheet-draped horses solemnly through the town at night. Soon they discovered that their frolics frightened superstitious Negroes, and that was reason...
...Pakistani suggestions of an independent and self-serving foreign policy. Both nations feel a bit let down by the U.S. In Pakistan's case, it is the old grievance over arms shipments to India; in Turkey's, the U.S. position on Cyprus, which Turks regard as pro-Greek...
...expected, Plaza's plan pleased no one. He ruled out enosis (union with Greece), which is what many Greeks and Greek Cypriots want, as well as federalism or partition of the island, which is what Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots want. In effect, Plaza said that the U.N. as mediator could do nothing further until the two communities on Cyprus sat down face to face to discuss establishment of a government in which all would have equal rights without regard to racial origin...
Beyond the Boundaries? Turkish Cypriots recoiled from the idea of direct talks because of the predominant Greek position on the island; they are well aware that their top negotiator, Vice President Fazil Kuchuk, is no match for the wily Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus. In Ankara, the Turkish government railed at the report, accused Plaza of being pro-Greek and denounced him for going beyond the "boundaries of his duty." Instead of solving one problem, complained a Turkish official, Plaza had created a new one. But U.N. Secretary-General U Thant defended Plaza's report...