Word: retsina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dividing Stream, has scraped the marrow of his Greek characters. He recognizes their fortitude under real pain, their histrionics over emotional trifles and their bristling pride. Above all, he captures their gift for draining each passing moment of life as if it were a glass of their own villainous retsina wine. Author King overexposes and underdevelops his hapless English hero, but his color shots of Corfu are snapped with the eye of a Matisse, and Patrick's departure from the Ionian isle seems like expulsion from a demi-paradise...
...born, a barbarian," she has often said-to the infinite delight of her Greek subjects, "and I came to Greece to get civilized." The heady atmosphere of a nation where politics is a national sport was as much to Frederika's taste as the national wine Retsina, which smacks of turpentine to most foreigners. The new princess lost no time in establishing the dynasty which would make her stay in this delightful place secure. Her first child, a daughter, was born just ten months after the marriage. A second, the present Crown Prince Constantine, was born 19 months later...