Robbing the EC: Greece and the Para-Economy
Receipt?” he barked indignantly, raising his eyebrows and shuffling back to a scattered mess of electronic bits on a bench at the back of the radio repair shop.
Greek Idioms
From Superpower to Pistachios
In its heyday Aegina was the foremost commercial sea power in the Mediterranean and said to employ 470,000 slaves. Today, the island more modestly boasts cultivating the world’s finest pistachio nuts.
Aliki in wonderland
Nothing had been seen at Epidaurus by so many since superstar Callas sang Cherubini’s Medea there a quarter of a century ago.
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.
The Jabberwocky Controversy
On February 8 a leading conservative newspaper revealed that a pamphlet entitled “A Proposal of Life for the Young Generation” had been printed last July under the aegis of the Under Ministry of Youth and was circulating in high schools.
The Eugenides Foundation
Eugene Eugenides, the prosperous shipping industrialist, focused his extensive philanthropic activities on Greek education in
