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...Italian-Americans, The Children of Columbus. Amfitheatrof has run up against the usual double take when people ask his name. Explains he: "In Italy, the custom is to spell out your name using an Italian city to represent each letter. In my case, it is Ancona, Milano, Firenze, Imola, etc. By the time I'm through, I've toured the country...
...moving to Italy--it could have been sheer caprice--Pound, by the following year, was converted to Fascism. "I personally think extremely well of Mussolini," he wrote to Harriet Monroe of Poetry magazine in November, 1925. "If one compares him to American presidents (the last three) or British premiers, etc., in fact one cannot without insulting him. If the intellegentsia don't think well of him, it is because they know nothing about 'the state,' and government, and have no particularly large sense of values." Pound soon began to date his letters Fascist style, according to the March on Rome...
Ehrlichman, alas, serves up a minibiography as each minor character appears ("His age was hard to peg," etc.). He is afflicted by compulsive total recall of menus (at CIA headquarters dessert is austere "melon and cookies"; the G Street Club offers "a perfect, soft Brie"). But his prose, often better than serviceable, is sometimes very cutting indeed. (The political career of a Democratic Vice President is summed up as "a lackluster, snail creep to seniority.") By the time the reader gets to President No. 3, Richard Monckton, he is meant to accept Ehrlichman's jungle view of life...
Frederick Wiseman Festival (documentaries--Welfare, Hospital, etc.) Call 437-2247 for information...
...What seemed to be another cashing-in on the spate of the thirties films that did so well at the box office, turned out to be much more complex and intelligent than anyone expected. Beneath the precise atmospheric touches (the right clothes, the right music, the right slang, etc.) you find an apt and sinister diagram of where the tentacles of power lead. It's a lovely new interpretation of the American pioneerism: John Huston's Noah Cross serves as one of the more indelible and paradigmatic characters in recent movies. He singlehandedly demystifies the American dream. The connection...