Last month’s merriment began right on the first of May. Being May Day, when leftists gather to demonstrate and rightists disperse to pick flowers, and being a Sunday besides, there began an official rescheduling of deferred holidays that snowballed into a Commercial glacier. For over two weeks few transactions which an economist might call profitable could take place.
Easter, with its message of hope and salvation, is the greatest feast of the Greek Orthodox calendar.
Last year the Ministry of Housing and Environment announced its ambitious ‘beehive’ plan as an essential part of an overall program for solving the traffic circulation problem in central Athens.
On February 8 a leading conservative newspaper revealed that a pamphlet entitled “A Proposal of Life for the Young Generation” had been printed last July under the aegis of the Under Ministry of Youth and was circulating in high schools.
In the U.K. one is exhorted on billboards to buy British, to fly British. So, with the consequent flight of the wealthy to the Bahamas and the Riviera, it’s surprising that some P.R. person hasn’t thought up the slogan, to die British.
The formal blessing at the inauguration of the new Athens College Theater on December 16 by the Reverend John Antonopoulos.
On November 2, new traffic measures went into effect whose complexity is equal to that of shopping hours.
Only the Delphic sibyl at her most clearly equivocal could have accurately predicted it: not only did all the major parties in last month’s municipal elections claim to have won; they also claimed that their adversaries had lost.
The new Olympic Stadium just north of Athens was formally inaugurated on September 6 by President Karamanlis on the occasion of the XIII European Athletic Championships.
With the coming of August and the rising velocities of the meltemi which accompany it, forest and grass fires broke out again this year in many parts of the country.
