Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premier Papadopoulos, whose latest instruction to police chiefs was that it is better to let a guilty man go free than imprison an innocent one, was trying to make certain that his government abided by such precepts. Leftist Composer Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba the Greek), who was arrested four months ago for plotting to overthrow the regime, was released from prison. Two Athenian newsmen were also set free. Even so, some 2,500 prisoners remained on the Aegean islands of Ieros and Yiaros in camps that originally held Communist detainees during the 1946-49 civil...
...document available to four doz en men can be kept secret very long, and last week a number of interested Greeks, including King Constantine in his Rome exile, were poring over a very limited printing. It was a draft of the new Greek constitution that the junta led by Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos has promised to submit to voters before Sept. 15 as a major step in returning Greece to normal parliamentary rule...
...Parliament will be reduced from 300 to 200 members, and candidates must be either 1) native-born Greeks, or 2) citizens who have been naturalized for at least ten years, or 3) those who have held renewed Greek citizenship for at least five years after becoming citizens of foreign countries-a clause that would disqualify Leftist Andreas Papandreou from any election that might be held this year.* Banned from participation in Greek politics will be "all parties whose aims or the activity of whose members is openly or covertly opposed to the fundamental principles of the state or (designed...
With a memorably unpronounceable title that sounds rather like the medical diagnosis of an awful disease, Metastaseis & Pithoprakta was named after two works by far-out Greek-born Composer lannis Xenakis, 45. Each member of the orchestra has a totally different part, and the resulting sounds are more like electronic than man-made music-a succession of crepitations, squeaks, creaks and mutterings, punctuated by sudden rifle-like reports...
...Indian establishment such as Manhattan's Kashmir, he orders a scorching native dish like shrimp vindalo; elsewhere he will eat ordinary American food as long as it is liberally doused with Tabasco sauce. His table talk ranges knowledgeably over such topics as Kafka, Canadian hockey, the Greek military junta, Malibu real estate, pingpong and yoga...