The Watercloset Tapes
THE other day I was visited by a rather shifty-looking and emaciated dark gentleman who introduced himself as the military attache in the legation of an obscure African country on the southern edge of the Sahara desert.
Sources of Renewable Energy
The amount of energy available to a nation directly affects the standard of living, according
Kallion: Victim of Progress
With its rapidly-growing population, Athens has had to face many acute problems in recent years.
Yiannis Ritsos: The Path Towards the Myth
The anniversary of a poet is somehow different from other celebrations and one that draws our special attention. Such an event might have had less significance once, but in a period so lacking in imagination, it is very encouraging to see the seventieth birthday of a poet celebrated with such participation on the part of the general public. When the poet is Yiannis Ritsos one has to do with a ‘living myth’ which is also something very rare in our day.
Hellas, Hope, Freedom
ON the occasion of the 1979 Nobel Prize for literature being awarded to 68-year-old Greek poet Odysseus Elytis, Brenda Marder writes: In a world torn by terrorism, depressed by starvation, and strangled by technology, Elytis’ reaffirmation of joy and life, his praise of sea, rock, sun, sky and love, his pervasive sense of euphoria is a salutary tonic.
The Underworld of Lavrion
Hidden in the foothills of the Berzeko valley near the town of Lavrion lie the vestiges of vast riches, toil, and ruthless exploitation. Among gnarled pine trees and mounds of rubble there exist today endless black corridors carved into the bleak landscape by the muscle of thousands of men.
Francis Walton at the Gennadeion
On November 15, 1978, the Ministry of Culture and Science invested Francis R. Walton with the Order of the Phoenix, in recognition of his contribution to the cultural life of Greece.
Made in Greece
Until a few years ago, Greek fashion meant folklore. The garment industry consisted mainly of cheap items, such as cotton dresses and T-shirts.
The Beach Photographers
IN line with the Government’s policy of improving services to tourists and educating the Greek people on how to behave towards visitors from abroad, a circular has gone out from the Ministry of Education to the headmasters of all secondary schools in the country.
Wedding Bells for Lonely Hearts
TO look at the gay and gregarious Greeks, with social lives entirely taken up in the company of hordes of friends and relatives whom they visit or go out with every night, you would think it would be as hard to find a lonely heart among them as the ‘honest man’ Diogenes sought with a lighted lamp in broad daylight.