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Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Rembetiko" at 3 p.m. The fictionalized biography of a popular Greek singer provides a distinctive look at the events that played an important role in Greek history in the first part of the twentieth century...
Milli Blackman, director of the Principals' Center at the Graduate School of Education, was more than pleased with her (free) meal--a Greek salad and eggplant pizza...
Fresh from Ellis Island, Stavros gets a job shining shoes at Grand Central Terminal. It is the last scene of Elia Kazan's film America, America, the story of a young Greek's fierce determination to immigrate to America. Quickly, but as casually as an afterthought, a young black man, also a shoe shiner, enters and tries to solicit a customer. He is run off the screen -- "Get out of here! We're doing business here!" -- and silently disappears...
This interloper into Stavros' workplace is crucial in the mix of signs that make up the movie's happy-ending immigrant story: a job, a straw hat, an infectious smile -- and a scorned black. It is the act of racial contempt that transforms this charming Greek into an entitled white. Without it, Stavros' future as an American is not at all assured...
...Irish brought a new spirit to American politics, the Germans brought culture in varied forms, from singing groups to vineyards to poetry societies. Some German railway workers could recite Homer in Greek. More pioneering than the Irish, they helped develop America's hinterland, from Ohio to Texas. (In 1900, 1 out of 3 Texans was German in origin.) The town of Hermann, Missouri, still known for its wines, was typical: when laid out in 1837, streets were named for Schiller, Gutenberg, Goethe and Mozart...