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This tactic makes even less sense since anti-Communism itself soon will become entirely obsolete in the Italian context. Barring a miracle (and no doubt the fervent anti-Communist Pope Paul prays for this nightly) the PC will receive a plurality in the national elections next year. The Italian weekly Expresso recently released a poll indicating that an election at the present time would give the PC such a victory. In that case, the PC could not be denied participation--of some variety--in the government. It is clear then that anti-Communism will soon cease to be a viable...

Author: By Lorenzo Mariani, | Title: Italian Communism and U.S. Foreign Policy | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

...fervent hope that when "Hustler" Ringer and "Power" Korda some day turn to a fellow human for aid, they are met only with a "power gaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Feb. 9, 1976 | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...have always thought that John Kennedy's most significant contribution was his example. To his fervent supporters, your revelations of his lascivious conduct can be described in a word: heartbreaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 19, 1976 | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...delight of her fervent followers, five justices of the Supreme Court of India last week ruled that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was innocent. In separate but concurring opinions, the judges upheld the legality of the 1975 election-law amendment-passed retroactively by India's rubber-stamp Parliament after opposition members either were arrested or walked out-that changed the statutes under which Mrs. Gandhi had been found guilty of corrupt campaign practices. In essence, the ruling reversed the June Allahabad high court decision that would have barred her from holding elective office for six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Justice for Indira | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

Body Stealer. There is some padding in the 13,390 entries. Is anyone likely to misplace humid or fervent or dawdle? Bernstein includes some delightful, half-remembered curios-a body stealer, for example, is a resurrectionist. But where is mooncalf? Where is poshlust? Sometimes the clue words are elusive. If one goes hunting for callipygian, he cannot look under "buttocks, rounded" or some such, but must hit "shapely buttocks" or "beautiful buttocks." ("Buttocks that are fat" yields steatopygia-which is a different matter altogether.) Bernstein's backward dictionary is a kind of combination thesaurus and crossword-puzzle dictionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mot Juste | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

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