Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Revolution, and where in effect it stands still for two weeks every year (the no man's time of the title). The inhabitants of this intellectualized Glocca Morra all work at handicrafts, and their fundamentalismcum-science theology seems to. be a mixture of Billy Graham and Albert Einstein. Bruno himself turns out to be a mystical exponent of this theology. He claims to remember all of human history as if it were his biography, and he preaches that the key to identity is not the "I" of individual personality but the "we" of oneness with others and the universe...
...identity problem (again) is posed here more as a conundrum than a crisis. Cornelius Yamb is hired by a gangster syndicate to track down a nearmythical youth named Bruno, heir to a fabulous fortune. The quest leads him to a remote Canadian village, where to his surprise he is welcomed as Conrad...
...society are born out of both: violence and gentle cooperation." That is how Psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim defines a paradoxical but inescapable fact touching the whole history of "the children of Cain." How the two forces are balanced in an individual helps determine his behavior, even his sanity. How they are balanced in society helps determine its political organization, the degree and condition of its civilization. In the U.S. today, it seems to many that violence is in the ascendant over cooperation, disruption over order, and anger over reason...
...secretary of the domestic-appliances division of a trade organization called the National Association of Electro-Technical Industries, Bruno Bonarini acts as spokesman for Italy's thriving home-appliance manufacturers. Lately, Bonarini speaks as if he were wearing the purple. "We have conquered the European market," he observes imperially. "Now we are beginning to look to new horizons-the U.S. in the West and the Soviet Union in the East." Considering what Bonarini's legions have accomplished in Europe, West and East had better watch...
...been singers and dusty traditions, and turned out the polished, provocative productions that made him one of Europe's major musical forces. He was also a fanatical-looking figure-5 ft. 6 in. tall, thin, gazing fiercely from behind rimless spectacles-yet, as his protégé Bruno Walter wrote, "his spirit never knew escape from the torturing question: 'For what?' " Demon-driven, he sought the answer in the music he wrote in spare moments, making each piece a gigantic shadow play of the dark forces that struggled in his soul...