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...Greece-Breaking an Old Habit" [Jan. 24]: The old Greek habit you refer to is long dead. It died when Greek taverns became infested with local and international nouveaux riches, who don't know why, when or how to smash dishes and who, as you state, measure merrymaking's "success by the depth of the debris." Zorba would have smashed only one dish or glass-but with style. Spending no drachma or "buck" either...
...succeed with a picture about a male-virgin college graduate whose only politic problem was turning off Mrs. Robinson? This is an age dominated by science, which prides itself on being free of superstition; who would have thought that a story that takes the devil seriously could become a smash? Yet Rosemary's Baby was not only a bestseller as a book, but already ranks among the top 50 alltime movie hits. The Graduate has become the third largest money earner ($40 million) in movie history...
...spasta, ola kapsta [Smash all, burn all]." The notion obviously strikes a chord in the Greek soul. As viewers of the film Never on Sunday will recall, tipplers in the portside dives of Piraeus punctuate their drinking contests by breaking glassware, plates and occasionally furniture. In Athens' best clubs, people like Aristotle Onassis have been known to pay as much as $700 in damages for a single noisy evening of crockery tossing...
...plates and had just finished shattering the last one when police grabbed him. It was the first arrest under the new decree. The word is about in the capital that some Athenians feel so blue about the latest blue law that at home they go into the kitchen and smash their own plates...
...encrusted guns off Endeavour Reef. "We went to collect specimens of fish," said Academy Director H. Radclyffe Roberts. "Finding the cannon was the fun side of it." ∙∙∙ When his wife told a Tokyo reporter last month that he used to consort with geishas, beat her, and "smash things," Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato kept a discreet and diplomatic silence. The Premier was more talkative at his year-end bash for the press. "Mr. Prime Minister," asked one reporter, "did you beat your wife?" Certainly, Sato answered. Do you still beat...