IN AUGUST 1975 a play called A Greek Today caused a sensation on the Athenian Stage. Among its many scenes, priests were depicted carrying Junta banners, a shipowner was shown strangling his wife, and a Lesbian episode introduced nudity for the first time in the local theater.
I WAS in Salonica the other day to see the “Search for Alexander” exhibition in the Archaeological Museum and after having admired the beautiful display of Macedonian memorabilia I wandered over to the cafe in the park for some liquid refreshment.
REPORT from Catherine Vanderpool: When the “Homer” sailed into Rhodes on the morning of July 16, it was greeted by a large crowd holding a giant sign which read, “We don’t want you.”
A COUPLE of weeks ago I got a phone call from somebody whose name didn’t ring a bell at first.
THE history of the Athens sewage system is a long and, frankly, noxious one. Of its importance in antiquity, little has seeped down from ancient historians who foEowed the pleasant but now quite obsolete dictum, “If something smells, don’t put your nose in it.”
THE three-hundred “fathers of the nation”, as our deputies in Parliament are sometimes euphemistically called, went through a moment of near-panic during the recent Presidential elections.
AT 10:30 a.m. on May 8, the doors of the Senate Chamber in Parliament were closed, and the 172 deputies of the ruling New Democracy Party inside opened a caucus which would choose the party’s leader who would, thereby, become the country’s new Prime Minister.
ALL the recent to-do about Elytis winning the Nobel Prize for Literature and the awards to Harold Macmillan and Madame Simone Veil made me suddenly remember that we had another Nobel prizewinner living in our midst right here in Athens — or at least, I hoped he was still living because I hadn’t seen or heard of him since I met him at the formal opening of a new VD clinic in Piraeus shortly after the war.
A journalist who writes a column in the weekly magazine Epikaira, Nikos Dimou, has proposed a new piece of legislation which he believes should be written into the Greek constitution and the violation of which should be considered a penal crime carrying appropriately heavy sentences.
WHAT with Odysseas Elytis winning the Nobel Prize in December; Prime Minister Karamanlis, the Robert Schuman prize on March 15; and President Tsatsos, the Cudenhove-Kallergi Prize on March 18, it was high time that non-Greeks be given a chance to win prizes, too, and that the prizes themselves be of Greek origin.
