It is usually from up-stage — but if it isn’t it certainly looks that way. It is a/ways quick, it is always a deep sweep down to the footlights followed by a long ‘cross’. It is always an intimate recognition of the audience before even so much as a ‘how-do-you-do’ to the other actors. This is the Vouyouklaki ‘entrance’.
THE results of our first parliamentary elections in ten years came as a surprise to a great many people, not because they were won by the New Democracy party of Constantine Karamanlis but because of this party’s unprecedented majority.
The Setting: IN post-junta Athens it is not only the political parties that have shifted position, but the squares in which political rallies take place.
On Sunday, November 17, we go to the polls to elect a new Parliament — the first since the Chamber of Deputies was dissolved on April 14, 1967 as a preliminary to the May 28 election which was prevented by the military coup of April 21.
They are unique to Greece. They have become so popular that their production is now a major industry and their export a valuable source of balance of payments credits. Yet exactly what they are, how they are made, and how they should be taken care of are secrets second only to those of the ancient Eleusinian rites.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, two peculiarities in the art of Orthodoxy stand out increasingly. On the one hand there is a group of painters who flirt with the styles and iconography of Western art to the point of introducing oil techniques which destroy once and for all the character of the icon.
REMEMBER the last time we voted? It’s hardly more than a year ago, but if it seems longer than that it may be that the procedure was so simple. There were no programmes to think about, and no choice of candidates.
Homecoming — nostos— was to be a memorable experience for Kimon Friar. After a year of psychoanalysis with Theodore Reich in New York, he had overcome the psychological block to his creativity. Dr. Reich had urged him to complete his analysis by visiting Greece.
THE place was a balcony high up in a hotel in Thessaloniki. The occasion was the opening of the International Trade Fair.
Kimon Friar is a human dynamo. Though his translation of Kazantzakis’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is perhaps the work for which he is best known, it is but one in a long list of remarkable achievements.
