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...bread and circuses, the contemporary ones make circuses to earn their bread. Now adays, they call them costume pageants, and the tourists gobble them up, even though the shows are more hokey than historical. When the tourist season in Italy quieted down this year, it seemed to Impresario Gino Land! that it would be a shame to waste all those horses, women and gladiators; so he packed them all up and sent them to the U.S. for a multicity tour. Last week Landi's Festa Italiana opened at Madison Square Garden, and much to everybody's surprise...
...senior faculty level, two new chairs have been endowed. Enrique Anderson-Imbert has been named Victor S. Thomas Professor of Hispanic American Literature. The Monroe Gutman Professorship in Latin American Studies has been given to the Argentine sociologist, Gino Germani. Three permanent posts have been filled by noted scholars with an interest in Latin America. Professors Hirschman, Pary, and Maybury-Lewis have been appointed in Economics, History and Anthropology respectively...
...made, many key areas remain neglected. The Government Department has no senior or junior faculty members in the field. According to reliable sources, the Department was offered the Gutman Chair. However, after two years passed without a nomination by the Department, Social Relations was given the opportunity to nominate Gino Germani. In the field of modern Latin American History there is only one junior, and no senior, faculty member. The Bliss professorship remain vacant...
...clash of contrasting styles, curious continuities emerge. Kinetic art, one of the latest movements, represented by Sculptors Jean Tinguely and Pol Bury, is foreshadowed by Gino Severini's The Armored Train (opposite page), an example of World War I futurism that abstracts the warring motion of an ironclad railway car into shock waves, lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration...
...Died. Gino Prato, 64, former Bronx shoemaker who in 1955 briefly became TV's top-rated star on The $64,000 Question, when he correctly identified the opera with which Toscanini made his operatic debut (Aida) for $32,000, then declined an all-or-nothing chance at the jackpot, after which he became a $10,000-a-year good-will ambassador for the Biltrite Rubber Heel Company; of cancer; in Miami...