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...been a long time since Italy had anything to cheer about of this magnitude. The Azzuri had last won the World Cup in 1938. Since then there had been no victories in war, no diplomatic triumphs, nothing but the frustrations of a small country trying unsuccessfully to distinguish itself on a world scale...
...skip lightly over the Hitler and immediate postwar periods-the country has produced a generation with little or no historical perspective. In the eyes of West German youth who cannot remember the cold war or the Berlin airlift or the Korean War, there is really not much to distinguish between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, the vital Atlantic Alliance is sometimes questioned or even naively perceived as a fading and largely unnecessary relic...
...anti-Semitism runs so deeply that they distinguish between Russian mathematics and Jewish mathematics," says Melvyn B. Nathanson, dean of the graduate school of Rutgers University in New Jersey and a widely noted authority on Soviet mathematics. What this means, explains the dean, is that Jews have found it increasingly difficult to gain admission to undergraduate and graduate programs in math and earn advanced degrees, as well as finding it "almost impossible" to obtain academic position...
However, the task of directing becomes impracticable unless thematic priorities and emphases, drawn from the script itself, are used to nurture and shape the artistic vision. And it becomes impossible to distinguish theme from device, message from embellishment, or innovation from convention without some awareness of the period, the playwright, or the genre...
...Billy wait outside, Stewart Guernsey moves around in the basement downstairs. His faded blue overalls drag on the ground as he pulls out mattresses from a stack in the corner, sorts through bedding and organizes a staff of volunteers. With his unassuming manner and style of dress, few would distinguish him from the frequenters of the shelter. Even fewer would guess that he is a first-year Harvard Divinity School student...