Le musee imaginaire
On June 3 the Alexander S. Onassis awards were presented by President Sartzetakis at a ceremony which took place in the Old Parliament.
Sloane Elliott
Sloane Elliott was an American born Yale-educated novelist, playwright, essayist. Born in 1930 in New York City and permanently moved to Greece in the 1960's. In 1979, he bought the The Athenian title and operated as Chief Editor.
Millirems and meteorites
Passion week and the resurrection are traditionally celebrated with such single-minded fervor that no one seemed to take notice this year that something else was in the air.
Vanishing into thin air
Several vanishing acts in the last few weeks have had Athenians wondering if they are not victims of sorcery. Least surprising, unfortunatly, was that of the assassin who fatally shot industrialist Dimitris Angelopoulos in busy, fashionable Kanaris Street one Monday morning.
Passing by
As he stepped off the airplane on his return from Olof Palme’s funeral in Stockholm last month, Prime Minister Papandreou was in an uncharacteristically philosophical mood.
A land on trial
The Greeks are among the most litigious people on earth. There are said to be more lawyers per capita gainfully employed here than in any other country in the EEC.
Bitter Oranges
Among other official designations, 1986 has been declared the Year of Peace and the Year of Road Safety.
A view from above the nefos
A month ago the satirical weekly To Pondiki claimed that the Office of the Presidency had sent policemen to the residence of Constantine Karamanlis to fetch-back two official cars which the former president had put at his own disposal when he resigned last March.
Destabilization
Every now and then the country appears to go through a period of deep-seated ethnic unease.
For even better days
Happy cities are all alike (to paraphrase Tolstoy), but every unhappy city is unhappy in its own way.
Open secrets
During the recent migrations of expelled, repatriated and defecting spies that have been flying east mainly from West Germany and England or west from East Germany and the Soviet Union, no one has been so indecorous as to announce that he, or she, has been working as an agent.
