Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being governed under an imposed dictatorship, preserving only the formalities of parliamentarism. It is being so governed by a group historically associated with the solidification of the present social and economic order. The trouble with forums and the people who patronize them is a major dislocation of the weather eye; Fascism is not a scholastic question like Monism-- it is a practical question, like a riot or a revolution. POLLUX...
...which had previously notified stockholders explicitly that it was not going into the liquor business, called a directors' meeting for this midweek to vote on a liquor affiliate. Mc-Callum's Perfection, Haig & Haig and Dewar's Scotch were the chief whiskeys in General Foods' eye, and also Gordon's Gin. The last was a cause for much debate and speculation. The importing company that had Gordon's in the old days had come sufficiently to life to give DCL legal pause in assigning this agency afresh. Observers waited to see whether the Gordon...
...among the historians who retail it there are generally more bores than raconteurs. Historian Ralph Roeder is no bore. His crowded subject, the climax of the Italian Renaissance (1494-1530), could easily trip and entangle a pedestrian fact-plodder, but Author Roeder slips adroitly through its thickets, his eye always on one of his relay of four guides (Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretino). Not a portrait of some composite Renaissance man but four overlapping biographies of typical men of the time, The Man of the Renaissance is one of the solidest choices yet made by the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...whose corrupt old Borgia body mortified with such appalling swiftness that it had to be hammered into the coffin; Isabella d'Este, first lady of her time; Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder's picture of the sack of Rome (1527) will stand with the best of them. And everywhere through the magnificent murk sound the great names, like bells...
...publishing house, married Fania Mindell, theatrical scene designer. Piqued by thoughts of Savonarola, Author Roeder wrote and published a book about him but was disappointed with it. He decided to write it over again; The Man of the Renaissance was the result. Fair, 43, with a cold intelligent eye, erect carriage and precise enunciation, Author Roeder lives bookishly but sociably in Manhattan. Between meals (he and his wife share the cooking) he works on his next book...