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Pedants & Peasants. The grasping Fassolas and the well-bred Partibons share an hourglass relationship. The Fassolas are on top, but empty, feeding on the fetid air of Fascist posts and poses. The Partibons are on the bottom, but filled with grit and their own brand of gallantry -the gallantry of being their rather idiosyncratic selves. Giorgio's tawny-haired sister Elena, with whom he is spiritually close to incest, drives motorboats and herself at a swamping pace. Brother Giuliano plays cards from morning to night and takes cute tricks to bed. With Chekhovian unconcern, Papa Partibon paints while...
...Christian Democratic governments for seven years, most recently as the Finance Minister whose hardfisted fiscal policies have helped make the lira one of the world's soundest currencies. On his first try over three weeks ago, Tambroni offered a rightist Cabinet dependent on neo-Fascist votes in the Assembly, but many of his fellow Christian Democrats found such a naked lash-up with the Fascists obnoxious...
...convinced that the Christian Democrats were slipping toward an "unclear and unclean agreement" with Italy's big, Red-tainted Socialist Party, Italy's free-enterprising Liberals announced that their 18 Deputies would no longer support Segni. Since this meant that his government could survive only by accepting Fascist support, Segni resigned without even asking for a vote of confidence...
Then, though he himself is a distinguished Milanese businessman, Merzagora also threw in a blunt word of warning about the malign influence exercised on Italy's government by the nation's great capitalists and its huge government corporations, which have steadily expanded since Fascist days. Said he: "An atmosphere of corruption weighs on Italian political life, polluted by speculation and unlawful financial activities . . . If Italy does not soon rediscover the joys of political honesty, very sad prospects lie before...
...Tony's childhood studies of young Prince Charles and Princess Anne, and his coolly beautiful portrait of Margaret on her 29th birthday, made his reputation as a "society photographer." It is a label he disliked, and Tony prowled London streets for odd and amusing shots, and covered fascist rallies and anti-A-bomb parades...