Word: amfitheatrofs
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...Erik Amfitheatrof devoted himself to the campaign of Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro, following him to the sun-baked region of Puglia at the heel of Italy's boot. Like Bonfante, Amfitheatrof is a man between two worlds. He was born in Milan, but his composer-father moved soon afterward to Los Angeles. After Harvard, Erik returned to Italy, as a sometime freelance, later as a staff member of TIME-LIFE Books. During this time, he turned out a book on the history of Italian-Americans, The Children of Columbus. Amfitheatrof has run up against the usual double take...
...admire Vidal for his accomplishments in an old but honorable role, the well-rounded man of letters." He adds: "Vidal does not seem to be taken seriously by most academic critics, but they could learn something about graceful, effective prose from studying his work." From Rome, Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof traveled with Vidal to his hillside villa in Ravello. "After a tour of the house and a drink of Vidal's home-bottled wine, we went out to dinner and talked until midnight," says Amfitheatrof. "By then the file was all but writing itself." Meanwhile New York Correspondent Roland Flamini...
That rarely happens, as TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof discovered during a recent interview with the author. He found the celebrated Vidal tongue as sharp and active as ever. A sampling of Vidal's current opinions and animadversions...
...surefire prescription for a prolonged guerrilla war along the tightly guarded border that slices across the island and its ancient walled capital of Nicosia. Nonetheless, Turkish Cypriots last week stepped up resettlement efforts in their acquired territory. Shortly before Denktas. proclaimed a separate state, TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof paid a visit to the Turkish section and sent this report...
...Arrupe was in trouble within the Society of Jesus, reports TIME'S Erik Amfitheatrof, the Curia maneuvers only served to help him score a major victory. The Congregation not only resented the interference with internal Jesuit issues, but feared a growth in curial influence over the order if Arrupe were weakened. It therefore rallied round the Superior General, who is now strongly entrenched in his post. Arrupe showed great confidence and diplomacy last month in a speech in which he admitted the Pope's anguish over the Jesuits. He becomingly confessed that his failings as an administrator were...