Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Music to Generals' Ears ATHENS, Greece-The composer of the music for the motion picture "Zorba the Greek" has been imprisoned, according to reports in Athens. Miki Theodorakis, a leftist opposed to the Greek generals, was taken from the mountain village where he had been living in exile with his family, the reports said...
...Beatles' next album, Magical Mystery Tour, features the song "I Am the Walrus" ("corpse" in Greek, according to LaBour) and shows McCartney in a walrus suit on the front cover. On page 23 of the inside series of pictures, the other three Beatles wear red roses in their lapels, McCartney a black rose...
Nervously, the little band of rescuers stared toward the dark shore from their boat, anchored off the bleak, remote Greek isle of Amorgos. Finally, they spotted the faint beam of a flashlight. By walkie-talkie, they confirmed that their man was ready to be picked up. Two crewmen hopped into a rubber dinghy and paddled to the beach. Twenty minutes later, they were back with a passenger: George Mylonas, 50, Greece's former Under Secretary for Education, who had been exiled to the island 14 months earlier by the military junta as a "threat to public security...
...story had all the elements of a classic suspense tale. Early in September, members of the Greek resistance approached Italian Journalist Mario Scialoja, a reporter for Rome's weekly L'Espresso, and asked his help in rescuing a victim of the Athens regime...
...characters in The Concept first came out on stage stripped down to their psyches, screaming "I'm lonely," "I'm afraid," "I'm angry," "I hate you." The cacophony recalled a Greek chorus. It seemed ten times more terrible than the wails of Trojan women, because each speaker was in a secluded hell. Only when they came together in a football huddle could they be silent...