Word: retsina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town square, men gather beneath plane trees to sip retsina, a resin-flavored wine. They see a photographer and nod knowingly to each other: "Spiro." At the corner of Aristotle and Socrates streets stands a house built some 200 years ago by an earlier Anagnostopoulos. Spiro's cousin, Andreas, a quiet, naturally dignified man, lives on the second floor with his family...
Mornings, they might take off an hour and find a quiet beach, but they are back in the thick of it before the cathedrals close and bistros beckon them on to a glass of Campari, retsina, or vin ordinaire. At some point, of course, they find time to troop into the local American Express, where on a good day, a persevering type can manage to meet a friend, down a Coke, pick up his mail and a girl as well...
...Kurfürstendamm, young art students collected rent money by drawing colored chalk reproductions of the madonnas of Giorgione and Fra Angelico. In the fairyland of the big department stores, late shoppers were snapping up collapsible 6-ft. Christmas trees, black lace nightgowns from Paris, Guardsmen neckties from London. Retsina wine from Greece...