ON the night of April 21 we left our offices on the corner of Alopekis and Loukianou in downtown Athens and headed for home. The demonstration, organized by the youth branches of all the political parties, was in progress a few blocks below on Vasilisis Sofias.
The other day, I was rather intrigued to find among my junk mail a prospectus from the Zonguldak Book-of-the-Month Club.
WITH the first boom of the cannon up on Lycabettus we were out of bed in a second and hastily dressing. At intervals bands could be heard strutting by with flurries as they marched to their appointed places. We answered several hysterical phone calls from visitors to our fair city, and explained that we were not having a revolution and that the cannon was merely saluting the occasion of our Independence Day.
At the police chief’s- cue his assistant handed me a copy of The Athens News. That was also the signal to ask me if I had read it recently.
Tax evasion is, of course, one of our national sports, a variation on hide-and-seek. It
Thousands of tourists visit Greece every year to follow in the footsteps of St. Paul. The Apostle, starting from Antioch, gradually covered the whole territory of Asia Minor and Greece—then part of the Roman Empire—as his mission field.
THE Council of Europe has declared 1975 The Year of European Architectural Heritage.
Graham Greene has described “The Flaw” as a ‘masterpiece’. Arthur Miller has called it a ‘powerful’ book. Arthur Koestlerin a 1969 article named it the best book of the year.
Wht is it that the British and the Americans have always shown a fondness and a weakness for the Turks? This is a question we Greeks often ask ourselves and it looms larger today when our own love and affection for our western allies appears to have been basely betrayed.
Carnival in modern Greece is celebrated in a great variety of ways. Its highly colorful customs derive from many sources, but some of its most interesting traditions can be traced back to antiquity.
