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...terrorized Greek population into the sea; as on the island of Crete earlier and many years later in Cyprus, the people's hatred and suspicion flared and fighting between Turks and Greeks followed. George Seferis had been born at the beginning of the century in the Ionian village of Skala, where he lived until 1914. The ravage delayed his return for 36 years, and sometimes he called himself a seafarer, perpetually seeking roots. The similitude aptly echoed reality, for Seferis traveled and he wrote--offering manuscripts like a wayward sailor tosses corked "bottles" in the sea on the chance they...
Until recently the Continent's most ancient inhabited site was thought to be Czechoslovakia's Stranska Skala Grotto, where archaeologists have found tools that are some 700,000 years old. Now Prehistorian Henry de Lumley is convinced that manlike creatures lived and worked in the Riviera cave at least 1 million years...
Look to the Lilies belongs to this sorry lot. Adapted from the 1963 film Lilies of the Field, which starred Lilia Skala and Sidney Poitier, the show is peculiarly ill-attuned to the temper of the present time. The musical presents a group of West German nuns relocated in the Southwestern U.S. They are trying to minister to Mexicans and Indians under the flinty, egocentric but spiritually incandescent will of their superior, Mother Maria (Shirley Booth). Into their midst comes a Negro on the lam, Homer Smith (Al Freeman Jr.). It is Mother Maria's conviction that Homer...
...ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Lilia Skala stars as a children's nurse suspected of murdering her last charge...
...about Smaragthi? Beautiful, of course, and so rounded in the right places that even her foster father tries to violate her when, drunk again, he comes home to find her naked and asleep. But even though Smaragthi's face and figure dominate the small fishing village of Skala, she has to share a sensuousness that in the end is bigger and sweeter than she. For Novelist Myrivilis is not just in love with his heroine-he is in love with Greece...