Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Practically, there is much less ambiguity. The discernible results of your (and others') efforts to influence policy from within the system are virtually zero -- more a holding operation than anything else, and hardly a sweeping tide of reform. The Nation of August 19, referring to American support of Franco's Spain, could very easily be pointing at China scholars bent on "subverting" the government...
...this Romeo and Juliet had been produced in 1956, there might have been no need for West Side Story the following year. "I wanted to bring the story to the attention of young people," says Director Franco Zeffirelli. "The story is of two urchins crushed by a stupid, banal quarrel with origins even the adults don't know. In love the young couple found an ideal - one they could die for - and youth today is hungry for ideals...
Instead of simply duplicating the first-folio on film, Zeffirelli and his two co-writers, Franco Brusati and Masolino d'Amico, have blithely excised and elided speeches, transposed lines, eliminated characters. It is a dangerous game, rewriting Shakespeare, but Romeo and Juliet proves that it can be played and won. An even greater risk was to give the leading roles to a pair of youthful unknowns with virtually no acting experience: Juliet is a tremulous 16-year-old, Olivia Hussey; Romeo is Leonard Whiting, 17. Both look their parts and read their lines with a sensitivity far beyond...
Director, writer, scene designer and onetime actor, Franco Zeffirelli talks and acts like a mountebank, but he is a man of considerable talent and great versatility. "I am," he declares grandly, "the flag-bearer of the crusade against boredom, bad taste and stupidity in the theater...
...disarray: in 161 years it had had 45 governments, some lasting only days. As Premier after 1932, Salazar squashed partisan quarreling with dictatorial measures and brought order to the economy by applying conservative, pre-Keynesian fiscal policies. By the late 1930s, he was flirting openly with fascism. He backed Franco against the Spanish Republicans. While Portugal remained neutral in World War II, Salazar at first sympathized with the Axis; when it became clear that that was the losing side, he granted bases in the strategically located Azores Islands to the U.S. and Britain...