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Flashing neon lights surround Bernini's 17th century Triton fountain. A "surgical incision" in the side of a spandy new apartment house preserves an antique pillar. The Forum, "that lovely lake of time," is lit up at night like a model house. "The place is crawling with wires." Yet despite all this "enormity of the specific"-or perhaps directly through it-Rome makes its power felt in the beholder. "The city has its own language in time, its own vocabulary for the eye, for which nothing else was any preparation ... It is ... a vast untidiness peopled with characters...
...ignore the unsynchronized sound track and the incongruity of narration in English and singing in Italian. Gino Mattera, as Alfredo, is a fine actor with a big, impressive voice. Nelly Coradda, in the juicy role of Violetta, is devastatingly feminine. The settings are all effective, particularly the sparkling fountain where Violetta and Alfredo first acknowledge their love. Except for a few excessively sentimental scenes, the movie is a forthright attempt to reproduce the great moments of a great opera...
...letter to the London Sunday Times, Author Charles (The Fountain) Morgan deplored the flood of postwar novels that are "grossly brutal in subject and in language." Such writing, said he, is not only puerile, but out of date. "Those who today are trying to out-Zola Zola or to undertake the scatological education of Lady Chatterley are, in effect, scrawling on their grandparents' lavatory walls...
Magic Trifle. Bell Laboratory has a two-stage transistor amplifier, complete with resistors and condensers, that is potted in a cylinder of plastic as big as a ¾-inch section cut from a fountain pen. When a faint voice current is fed to this trifle, it gives a signal loud enough to blast the eardrum. Scores of such amplifiers could be packed in a coffee can. One device at Bell has transistors that do the work of 44 vacuum tubes. The whole thing is housed on a panel no bigger than the page of a novel...
...damned fool to buy anything at retail," said James Shea, a big Dallas electric-appliance distributor. Shea, like many another U.S. appliance jobber, is finding that more & more of his business is coming from "discount houses" which offer everything from washing machines, refrigerators and TV sets, down to fountain pens, at 20% to 30% below list price...