The latest postponement of a White House visit by Greece’s Premier – for a second time this year – in conjunction with the announcement of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s trip to Washington, DC in May is certainly not auspicious.
Just before she was stabbed to death outside an Athens police station by her ex-boyfriend after being refused help inside, Kyriaki Griva was told by an operator on a police hotline after asking for a patrol car escort home, “Lady, police cars aren’t taxis.
On Wednesday, April 10th, 19 years were completed since the repose of the blessed memory of Archbishop Iakovos of North and South America.
Mark Esper served as Secretary of Defense under Donald Trump from 2019 to November 7, 2020, two days after that year’s presidential election.
April, with its unfolding of petals and young sprouts so vegetative growth may take place, always reminds me of a similar process in us humans: the unfolding of wise inner direction through intuition for our personal growth to take place.
The Lausanne Conference was staged in two phases, November 21, 1922-February 4, 1923 and April 23-July 24, 1923.
Perhaps Greece’s greatest composer (Manos Hatzidakis fans would say not), Mikis Theodorakis is most remembered for the dance tune Zorba the Greek, which evokes images of Anthony Quinn teaching Alan Bates the syrtaki on a Cretan beach at the end of the film, giving millions of tourists an image of Greece.
We have witnessed a series of successful visits of Greek government representatives to cities with big Greek populations in Canada and the United States over the past few weeks.
Growing up during World War II in hardscrabble Milano, Texas, where honky-tonks, cotton and watermelon sprung forth, my Aunt Fran was acquainted with hardship.
Circumlocution is one of those SAT words that I use to describe the rhetorical strategy employed by many who choose to “baffle you with b******t when they can’t dazzle you with brilliance.
Greece is the only European Union country where drivers can go straight ahead on red, apparently, because they do, but you can’t blame them because they’re probably trying to find an empty spot on the sidewalk to park.
This week’s column is one of my periodic missives to sensible centrist Democrats who’ve yet to realize that their party has abandoned them.