Although it is becoming increasingly scarce, tourists continue to demand ‘authenticity’. When necessary, therefore, we must manufacture it, since not to do so would be churlish and inhospitable. Tourists do not come thousands of miles to see and hear what they can see and hear in their own backyards. They come in search of something different.
YOU ARE not enjoying yourself enough — have more fun!’ director Jules Dassin calls out to his leading lady, Melina Mercouri. They are filming a dream-nightmare sequence on the set of their latest film, a modern-day story juxtaposed against the ancient tragedy of Medea.
THE long-threatened strike by the Association of Tourist Guides began on May 6 and reached its climax the following Sunday as guides marched across the Acropolis and Philopappos Hill under placards and banners spelling out their grievances in half a dozen languages.
SHE CALMLY steered the taxi through the dense traffic as she spoke, her face expressive and cheerful. Ά woman should be a woman regardless of what she is doing,’ said Mrs. Hariklia who has been driving a taxi in Athens for over ten years.
THE CAIQUE could have been any sponge-diving boat out of Kalymnos. Its deck was heaped with gunnysacks of sponges, boxes of provisions, drums of diesel fuel; its shrouds were a ragtag of patched dive suits, drying laundry, faded bandanas: a typical Aegean working boat.
A FAVOURITE pastime with people these days is guessing what sign of the zodiac other people were born under.
SOME CITIES struggle through existence under a cloud: no one has a good word for Philadelphia or Newark or Mesolongi. Others, however, simply have bad reputations which are undeserved.
Over a decade ago members of the faculty of the International School in Geneva found themselves once more preparing their senior students for university entrance examinations. Among those necessary for entry into the universities in the various countries where the students wished to study were the French Baccalaureate, the Swiss Maturite, the English G.C.E. Ό’ and ‘A’ levels, the German Abitur, and the American SAT’s and Advanced Placements.
THE first Mediterranean Consumers’ Conference, which was held in Athens in March, drew considerable attention. In contrast to other countries, the average Athenian consumer is often rather naive and not given to comparison shopping — in spite of continuing inflation.
AMONG the few great churches of the Byzantine civilization to be found in modern Greece one is, surprisingly, on the Cycladic island of Paros. During Byzantine times, Greece was merely an impoverished outpost of the great empire centered around Constantinople.
