Word: philotimo
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...prove that Greece, a small nation, can deliver a set of games as good as any big nation," says Theodore A. Couloumbis, professor of international relations at the University of Athens. Will it all work? It has to, says Couloumbis. It's a matter of national pride and of philotimo, the Greek fear of shame. That explains why even those Greeks who initially opposed the Games are now getting enthusiastic about them - and co- operating to get the city ready. The numbers of volunteer applications continues to increase daily. Also, after initial reluctance, people are signing up to open their...
...British, Go!" Who could bring peace to a land thus split by doubt and fear and bordered by its neighbors' militant hatreds? The British, who had come to Greece as liberators, had failed. The presence even of a friendly, homesick, token-size British army hurt Greek philotimo (the kind of sensitive self-esteem that makes a Greek waiter deliberately dawdle if he is harshly addressed, and a Greek day laborer feel equal to his King). Others besides Communists hummed the popular Communist ditty: "British, Go from Our Land!" In Athens last week, a fashionable young lady remarked...
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