Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dominating Athens from a choice location 600 ft. up Mount Lycabettos is an enormous neon sign that outshines even the gleaming, floodlit marble of the Parthenon atop the Acropolis. The sign spells out the Greek word NAÍ in letters 30 ft. high. All over Greece, on walls, buses, taxis, telephone poles, billboards, farm carts, beach huts and whitewashed windmills in the Aegean isles, posters urge: NAÍ. Next week 5 million Greeks will vote NAÍ (yes) or ÓXI (no) in a referendum on a new constitution drafted by the military junta that has ruled the country since...
...fact is largely empty. Even if the freed opposition leaders want to fight the constitution, their access to the voters is restricted by press censorship under martial law. Nor is the government radio likely to find any time for them. The amnesty does not apply to the 2,000 Greek Communists and other far-leftists interned on the Aegean islands of Leros and Yiaros, or to 20 senior military officers who backed King Constantine's unsuccessful countercoup last December. Papadopoulos aims to keep a checkrein even on those men he has released. "I hope they will not make another...
...Classics Department, the number of beginning Greek students appears to have grown while the number of Latin students is at least average...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Zorba the Greek (1964). A grand bacchanalian bash based on a novel by the late Nikos Kazantzakis. Starring Anthony Quinn, Lila Kedrova, Irene Papas and Alan Bates...
...like illness, sometimes affords its survivors unique insights. Sculptor Lucas Samaras, 32, grew up in Macedonia during World War II and the Greek civil war. Now a U.S. citizen, he still remembers "the bombings, the hiding, my aunt's ripped belly, the sound of executions, the strange pride in being visited by a catastrophe...