Word: barzini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LUIGI BARZINI, Italian author: Three Italian leaders, fused into one man, could be useful today. The greatest is Julius Caesar, penniless patrician, demagogue, traitor to his class, brilliant lawyer, writer, invincible general, creator of an empire. After him, Lorenzo de' Medici, banker, merchant, poet, who ruled Florence with a firm hand. He invented the balance of power to keep the quarrelsome Italian states at peace. Then Camillo Benso di Cavour, farmer, financier, journalist, businessman, who turned tiny Sardinia into the kingdom of Italy in a matter of months...
...numbers that were rendered ciphers by the landslide. Reporters talked aimlessly with such pundits as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Late in the evening, even Eric Sevareid was at a loss for his specialty, the orotund, empty phrase. In desperation he began to pick the brain of Luigi Barzini, author of The Italians and a dilettantish follower of McGovern's campaign...
...Luigi Barzini, Italian journalist, editor, member of Parliament and author. His best known books are "Americans are Alone in the World" and the "Italians...
Recently, Green Beret Captain Robert Marasco appeared on the show to justify his killing of a Vietnamese double agent. On another program, Fashion-Model Czarina Eileen Ford got into a ranting match with two other women over whether mannequins are sexually promiscuous (some are, some aren't). Author Luigi Barzini told of the time that Mussolini, accompanied by a phalanx of officials and journalists, was motoring through the countryside. Suddenly the caravan halted and Il Duce got out and walked to a wall, apparently to gaze at the scene. Everybody else respectfully went over to share the leader's bucolic...
Whether dealing with Barzini on Mussolini or Orson Welles on films, Cavett lavishes upon his best guests a combination of warmth, informed intelligence and swift wit. His thought process is like a Grimes light on a patrol car, turning incessantly, flashing quips and telling comments on all manner of subject matter. When Joe Namath said that a nude scene in his latest movie had been done in very good taste, Cavett commented, "I'm sorry to hear that," then brightly switched to something more lighthearted: "Have you ever been offered a bribe?" He asked Actress Sally Kellerman...