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^iEI.IENIC LUPO A Quarterly Review VOL. VI, No. 1 SPRING 1979 Editorial Board: DAN GEORGAKAS PASCHAL'S M. KITROMILIDES PETER PAPPAS YIANNIS P. ROUBATIS Managing Editor: PHYLLIS R. CRAIG Advisory Editors: NIKOS PETROPOULOS DINO SIOTIS The Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora air mail; Institutional—$20.00 for one is a quarterly review published by Pella year, $35.00 for two years. Single issues Publishing Company, Inc., 461 Eighth cost $3.50; back issues cost $4.50. Avenue, New York, NY 10001, U.S.A., in March, June, September, and Decem- Advertising rates can be had on request ber. Copyright © 1979 by Pella Publish- by writing to the Managing Editor. ing Company. Articles appearing in this Journal are The editors welcome the freelance sub- abstracted and/or indexed in Historical mission of articles, essays and book re- Abstracts and America: History and views. All submitted material should be Life; or in Sociological Abstracts; or in typewritten and double-spaced. Trans- Psychological Abstracts; or in the Mod- lations should be accompanied by the ern Language Association Abstracts (in- original text. Book reviews should be cludes International Bibliography) in approximately 600 to 1,200 words in accordance with the relevance of content length. Manuscripts will not be re- to the abstracting agency. turned unless they are accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. All articles and reviews published in Subscription rates: Individual—$12.00 the Journal represent only the opinions for one year, $22.00 for two years; of the individual authors; they do not Foreign—$15.00 for one year by surface necessarily reflect the views of the mail; Foreign—$20.00 for one year by editors or the publisher NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ATHAN ANAGNOSTOPOULOS is associate professor of classics at Boston University . KIMON FRIAR's translations of Yannis Ritsos, Takis Sinopoulos, and Manolis Anagnostakis will be published soon .. S. VICTOR PAPACOSMA is associate professor of history at Kent State University ... PETER PAPPAS is an editor of the Journal . In addition to being an editor of the Journal, YIANNIS P. ROUBATIS is the Wash- ington correspondent of the Athens daily, Ta Nea. He is currently work- ing on a book about the murder of George Polk . MINAS SAVVAS teaches creative writing at San Diego State University . GEORGE VALAMVANOS is a regular contributor to the Journal . PERICLES S. VALLIANOS received his doctorate in the history of ideas from Brandeis University . VASILIS VASILIKOS is the author of Z, Photographs, and The Monarch, among many other works. His most recent book is My Whole Life (Stelios Kazantzidis) . HENRY WASSER is professor of humanities at the College of Staten Island and an associate of the Center for European Studies of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the co-author of Higher Education in Western Europe and North America: A Selected Annotated Bibliography. TABLE OF CONTENTS Statement 4 Anatomy Lesson by Vasilis Vasilikos 5 The United States and the Operational Responsibilities of the Greek Armed Forces, 1947-1987 by Yiannis P. Roubatis 39 The Poetry of Dinos Christianopoulos: An Introduction by Kimon Friar 59 The Poetry of Dinos Christianopoulos: A Selection 68 A Survey of Recent Trends in Greek Higher Education by Henry Wasser 85 Book Reviews Pericles S. Vallianos on Homage to the Tragic Muse 97 Peter Pappas on Politics and Cinema 102 S. Victor Papacosma on Social Change and Military Intervention, 1880-1909 107 George Valamvanos on The Athenian Review 109 Minas Savvas on Resistance, Exile and Love 114 Letters 117 Publications Received 119 Index 122 Statement With the previous issue, the first five years of the Journal came to a close. Begun as a voice against the dictatorship of April 21, it has developed into a permanent forum for the democratic discussion of all issues concerning contemporary Greek reality. Further- more, it has become an important medium for the pres- entation of what is most vital—and viable—in Greek culture. While we believe that we have done much to ensure that the Journal become an authentic organ of Greeks in the diaspora, we know that there is still more to do. As we enter our second five years, we would like to invite our readers to participate in the Journal's development. We welcome not only suggestions for improvement, but constructive criticism of our errors and deficiencies. We believe that the production of a magazine accounts for only half of its life—the other half begins only after it reaches the hands of the reader. In that spirit of com- mon enterprise, we urge all our readers to take an active role in the ongoing definition of the Journal. —The Editors Anatomy Lesson Mderiga 'Avatogiac by VASILIS VASILIKOS Last fall, after an absence of many years, Vasilis Vasilikos visited the United States for several weeks. The immediate creative result of that visit (though not the only or final one, undoubtedly) was "MaEhwa 'Avorroplac," the story which follows these com- ments. Ostensibly about a conference of anatomists, its essential concern is the meaning of history and the manner in which it is confronted. The central metaphor of anatomy is an unusually per- ceptive crystallization of the social role historians play in defining and analyzing the development of our collective consciousness. Humanity's past is reified into a corpse which historians—history's anatomists—dissect. Having done so, they deduce from its entrails not only what has already been but what is yet to come. As such, their "profession," Vasilikos seems to imply, is sometimes insepara- ble from the ritual function of a magus. Although "Mdceruicc 'Avccroplac" may bear similarities to any number of academic conferences, it would be a profound mis- judgment to read it as a conte a clef. To do so would be to lose the general resonance of Vasilikos's metaphor for the satisfaction of illusory deductions. The point to the story is not to make connec- tions "to persons living or dead," but to describe the process by which humanity many times distorts its own self-portrait. In this sense, the reference in the story to Rembrandt's painting is not only significant but crucial. As more and more scholars are beginning to realize, the rigidly- defined specialization which has been imposed on the humanities and social sciences is leading to a new intellectual barbarism. Most political scientists are as ignorant of Stendhal and Mayakovsky as professors of literature are oblivious to Locke and Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire. It is time to reinterpret the idea of the ra- tionalization of academic disciplines and to understand that history and culture are the two separate profiles of the same human face. 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