Word: borgian
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...Rome's Quirinale Palace last week. There was practically no difference between this Cabinet and the last, which fell 33 days before. Nonetheless, Italy applauded, and the Milan stock market surged to a new three-year high. Italians rightly understood that Premier Moro had triumphed over a positively Borgian plot...
...Borgian Penumbra. Brilliant, left-wing Laborite Richard Grossman retorted caustically that McCarthyism "arises in countries when people outside suspect that the security arrangements required of the small fry are not maintained so severely at the very top." Citing the Burgess-MacLean case, Grossman charged that the government had shied away from a thorough investigation in order to "cover up" higher officials who, "if the truth had come out, would have had to go." Said he: "Now exactly the same thing seems to be happening in the Admiralty...
...scene of the poisoning was one of Borgian splendor: her spacious, high-ceilinged bedroom in the 17th century Villa Taverna, the residence of U.S. Ambassadors to Rome. When Ambassador Luce took over in Rome in late April 1953, she loved the bedroom at first sight, noted approvingly that the heavy-beamed ceiling-admired by a long line of predecessors as a fine example of Italian Renaissance décor-had been newly painted. The beams were in terra cotta green, decorated with cluster upon cluster of roses and rosettes. Many coats of heavy paint had been brushed onto the white...
...onetime literary, sometimes sanguinary critic for London's News Chronicle, British Wit Stephen (Gamesmanship} Potter disclosed, in the New York Times, the Borgian tactics of his former trade in a piece called "The Art of Reviewmanship." Essence of the art: "How to be one up on the author without actually tampering with the text." In ex-Critic Potter's sardonic view, the problem boils down to showing that "you yourself . . . should have written the book, if you had the time, and since you hadn't, you are glad that someone has. although it is obvious that...
...most cinemusicals the romantic protagonists cut each other's throats more shamelessly than they would dare to do in the most Borgian drama about man's inhumanity to man. In The Sky's the Limit a modest Flying Tiger (Fred Astaire) on hurried leave, a torpid picture-magazine publisher (Robert Benchley) and a photogenic photographer (Joan Leslie) work out their triangular difficulties with such decent respect for each other that they might be mistaken, in cloudy weather, for very nice human beings. The Sky's the Limit should have been a shattering innovation. Instead, it will...