There’s No Business Like Show Business
IN the aftermath of Ronald Reagan’s election last month, people everywhere were speculating on the effects it would have on the world’s fortunes from January 1981 onwards.
Onlooker
A Dream at Dodona
HARRIET Zubinsky is one of those Law 89 grass widows who live in Athens while their husbands are away for days and sometimes weeks on business trips in the Middle East and Africa.
Research Grants With a Difference
I HAVE absolutely no idea what scientific research is carried on in Greece and what grants for such research, if any, are given by any university or government institution to anybody for the advancement of knowledge in this country.
In Alexander’s Footsteppes
I WAS in Salonica the other day to see the “Search for Alexander” exhibition in the Archaeological Museum and after having admired the beautiful display of Macedonian memorabilia I wandered over to the cafe in the park for some liquid refreshment.
Hooray for Half-Occupancy
A COUPLE of weeks ago I got a phone call from somebody whose name didn’t ring a bell at first.
The People’s Choice
THE three-hundred “fathers of the nation”, as our deputies in Parliament are sometimes euphemistically called, went through a moment of near-panic during the recent Presidential elections.
Meeting in Kifissia
ALL the recent to-do about Elytis winning the Nobel Prize for Literature and the awards to Harold Macmillan and Madame Simone Veil made me suddenly remember that we had another Nobel prizewinner living in our midst right here in Athens — or at least, I hoped he was still living because I hadn’t seen or heard of him since I met him at the formal opening of a new VD clinic in Piraeus shortly after the war.
Yanni the Obscure
MY friend Yanni Philodoxakis is a retired civil servant who spends most of his mornings sitting under the green awning of a cafe in Kolonaki Square watching the world go by.
Dark Doings at a Merengue
MY friend Costaki Dyskilios is one of that peculiar breed of Athenian male who, somehow or other, always gets invited to cocktail parties and receptions.
The Olympics in Greece
A great deal of excitement has been stirred up by the proposal that Greece should become a permanent home for the Olympic Games. Officials in many countries have endorsed the idea and so have the editorial writers of many newspapers in the western world.
