Ministries of Efficiency
JOHN KAPODISTRIA, a native of Corfu who held various positions in Russia including that of foreign affairs minister, became the first president of modern Greece in 1827. He was assassinated in 1831.
Sand-castles in the Sky
LEAFING through a copy of Time magazine the other day I came across an article entitled ‘Coping with How-to-Cope Books’ which featured, among others, a book entitled Your Erroneous Zones.
Educating for the Future: The American Farm School for Girls
‘WHEN you educate a man, you educate an individual. When you educate a woman, you educate a whole family,’ Dr. John Henry House used to say.
Vathia: The Long Voyage Home
IT IS said that when God was completing his creation of the world and had nothing left in his hands but stones and rocks, he threw these down to Greece and formed the area known as the Mani. Its backbone is the jagged southern half of the Taygetus mountain range which juts into the sea to shape the central peninsula of the southern Peloponnisos.
Operetta in Navarino
THERE is hardly a town in Greece that does not deck itself out once a year for a panigiriox for the anniversary of some local but historic event. Towns with seaside promenades always provide a congenial setting where a communal sense of pomp and play can be theatrically acted out.
Aris Konstantinidis and Anonymous Greek Architecture
THIS tribute to anonymous Greek architecture is by Aris Konstantinidis, and it is fortunate that he has been appointed architectural director of a new project by the National Tourist Organization (EOT) which plans to restore a number of dilapidated but architecturally important Greek villages.
The Congested Aegean
THE AEGEAN may or may not be a Greek lake, but the hesitant first appearance of the Turkish oil exploration ship Sismik into these waters in late July must have felt, to its unfortunate commander, like the novice driver’s first essay into the traffic of central Athens.
Praise the Lord
MY FRIEND Yanni Mourmouras is one of those eternal gripers who never cease to grumble and complain about life in general and their own sorry lot in particular.
The Zappion: An Olympian Dream
HAVE YOU ever wondered what lies behind the historic buildings of Athens? A stroll around to the back of the buildings might seem to provide the answer, but more often than not these mute, imposing edifices harbour little-known tales of epic proportions.
Thessaloniki Through The Senses
SOME SEE Thessaloniki as a provincial town, a stepchild of Athens. Others consider the capital of Northern Greece, which is also a major seaport of Southeastern Europe, to be the most important academic centre of Greece, the nation’s defender of the Northern border, and an expanding multi-national centre in a United Europe, in any case, to the open-minded visitor, it has an exciting individuality, perhaps best described in terms of the senses: weeping, smiling, listening, touching and loving.