Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politics, and with some other faculty colleagues formed a semi-monastic political group which came to be known as "the little professors." Intense in their Catholicism and militant in their reformism, "the little professors" grew into what is now called the "Democratic Initiative." the anti-Communist left of the Christian Democratic Party. Another of "the little professors": Giorgio La Pira, the ascetic and popular mayor of Florence, who is godfather to the last of the Premier-designate's six children...
...Labor, he developed the "Fanfani house" program which so far has produced more than 7,700 government-built workers' homes; he put 200,000 of Italy's many unemployed to work on a reforestation program. As Minister of Agriculture, he set in motion much of the Christian Democrats' land reform program. He can keep going for 36 hours on catnaps, apples and a few sips of water. He keeps a big bowl of apples on his desk, offers them to visitors...
...first full-scale ballet (in 1938's Goldwyn Follies), calls him "the greatest choreographer we have in this country." and adds: "I don't think he has $10 to his name." In 1951 Goldwyn engaged him, at a sturdy fee, for the ballet in Hans Christian Andersen, only to have Balanchine beg off: too busy with ballet at City Center...
...play concerns a movie to be made about a heroic expedition that cost Explorer Christian Starcross and his men their lives. At odds over the movie project are Starcross' widow (Eva Le Gallienne) and his former mistress (Mary Astor). Their feuding reveals that Star-cross himself was an unscrupulous egomaniac who had knowingly set forth on a phony quest. But his devoted widow insists that the movie be made anyhow -arguing that, in an era of despair, a heroic legend born of a lie counts for more than the actual truth...
...remain sensitive to the evidence, we must continue to restructure the play throughout the evening and find ourselves at the end with some pieces that still do not fit. Along the way we will have entertained a number of interesting and mutually reinforcing interpretations including Mr. Maccoby's Christian parallels...