Word: donoratico
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Donoratico is a village on the Mediterranean about 140 miles north of Rome. Inland lies the delectable countryside of Tuscany, with its crumbling towers and its long avenues of shady cypresses leading to sienna-brown farmhouses. Near Donoratico is a vacation village run by the Club Mediterranee, the social and commercial phenomenon that has established 47 such villages in Europe and elsewhere. Special trains from Paris and Brussels and luggage-laden cars from a dozen countries arrive each Sunday, disgorging 250 middle-class families and turning the village's 60 acres of pine woods and two miles of beach...
Skeptical Children. To Americans, the atmosphere might suggest a mixture of Tanglewood and a tennis camp. But evidence of the modern U.S. is rare at Donoratico. One wonders if troubled America is becoming remote to comfortable Europeans. Senator Jacob Javits recently criticized some European leaders for thinking small. Europeans remember that the U.S. fell out with De Gaulle because he insisted on thinking big. Europeans have also watched, first critically and now with compassion, the consequences for the U.S. of thinking big in Asia...
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