The Athenian

AFTER the ceremonies and celebrations of our entry into the Common Market last month and after I had recovered from the acute indigestion they brought on (my doctor diagnosed it as koinagoretic dyspepsia and said it had reached epidemic proportions in the greater Athens area), I suddenly realized that if anyone asked me what it all meant, I wouldn’t know what to say. And then I thought to myself that there must be somebody in my vast circle of friends and acquaintances who could give me a simple and succinct answer to the question:

AMBROSE BIERCE once wrote that noise was “the chief product and authenticating sign of civilization”.

LAST month, on these pages, you read how the Serene Republic of Venice conducted cruises to the Holy Land as long ago as the fifteenth century and how that operation compared with the streamlined and ultra-efficient performance of cruises in our day and age.

JESSICA Dublin’s advice to young women is: “Do your thing first and then get married.”

AN interesting document came my way the other day.