Word: ch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petruchio? Throughout the show it is invariably spoken with a k-sound, apparently by false analogy with Pinocchio. The Italian name is properly spelled Petruccio, and the Shakespeare Folio made it Petruchio precisely to provide a phonetic spelling for English-speaking actors. Thus it should be pronounced with a ch-sound as in "church." (The identical situation obtains with the name Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing.) Furthermore, Shrew's verse requires, except in three or four lines, that Petruchio be trisyllabic (just as it is in Italian...
...Sonorities. The freedom of Alechinsky's art keeps it alive in a heyday of pop and op. He prefers truly popular art, such as the papier-mâché statues that the Mexicans explode with fireworks. "Popular art differs from pop art," he says, "the way the pleasure of love differs from artificial insemination." The trouble with pop, Alechinsky believes, is that it pays chilly, calculated homage to mass production. Says he: "You might say it's capitalist realism as opposed to awful socialist realism. Too neat and orderly...
...problems-religious, renal, linguistic-that so agonizing- divide India, Untouchability is perhaps the most massive. Reviled, for thousands of years, as a people whose ch contaminates, the Untouchables upied the absolute bottom of a solemnely which perfected the arts of soc elevation and degradation. Today, both men and women called Scheduled state by the government, called Hari- (children of God) by many follow- of Gandhi, called simply ex-Untouchables by Isaacs, are still at the bottom. There are 65 million of them-one Indian in seven...
...Contentieux. That was an over statement, but no one could deny that the Congo's shrewd, hard-bargaining Premier had won a major victory. During less than ten days of negotiations-first with businessmen at Brussels' Cháteau de Val-Duchesse, later with Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak-Tshombe had resolved a 41-year-old wrangle between Belgium and its former colony, which had come to be known as "le contentieux...
...Bonn, De Gaulle had pointedly kept Erhard waiting a quarter of an hour while he reminisced with Adenauer about the solidarity of the good old days. But now as Erhard's black Citroën pulled up before De Gaulle's 14th century cháteau at Rambouillet, the German flag was smartly run up the crenelated tower looming over the courtyard, and there was a smiling Charles himself waiting with outstretched arms for the Chancellor. And in some six hours of talk that followed, De Gaulle was all paternal charm and magnanimity...