Word: cavaliere
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Sunny Side. On page after page, Wallenberg repeats the refrain that is his definition of progress: "It is better by far than what it replaces." Focusing on the sunny side of modern society, he minimizes the clouds by looking only at their silver linings. The General Motors assembly line at...
Associates describe him as increasingly dictatorial, perhaps because he believes that is the only way to survive against his reactionary enemies among the rich and his liberal critics in the navy. His cavalier actions could be as defensive as they are offensive. Yet his mounting intolerance to criticism has many...
The costumes that Jane Greenwood has fashioned are lovely, though sometimes a bit late for the period. The shipwrecked sibling twins Sebastian and Viola (disguised as a pageboy) wear Cavalier rather than Elizabethan dress, similar to the "Blue Boy" garb Greenwood provided for the 1966 production. Unwisely she made the...
Bob Kaufmann has a tough job: administering Rosovsky's "no-growth" budget for major departments. "It's difficult to do because of the circumstances," he says. "You can't be cost-effective in a great university. The Faculty members like teaching, and you can't deal with their budget requests...
About a year ago, Henry Kissinger admitted, "I am not interested in, nor do I know anything about, the southern portion of the world from the Pyrenees on down." Kissinger's cavalier ignorance--feigned or real--is shared by most of his fellow-citizens, who have never been able to...