Word: giovannis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four weeks ago, canny Giovanni Vis-conti-Venosta, Premier Bonomi's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, got tired of trying to work through the Roman dusk by candle and carbide light.* One afternoon when Britain's High Commissioner, prim Sir Noel Charles, was to call, Visconti-Venosta personally ordered every candle and sputtering carbide light in the Palazzo Chigi doused. Sir Noel walked into Stygian gloom, groped his way through the Chigi's interminable passages and waiting rooms, conferred ghost-to-ghost with Visconti-Venosta. whose face never cracked a smile. Next day Visconti-Venosta wrote...
Italy declared herself in the war on Japan last week. The announcement was made by aging Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Giovanni Visconti-Venosta. The declaration meant little in a military...
Later Italians had second thoughts about the Churchill-Roosevelt declaration. And they were cool, too, to the news that General Giovanni di Raimondo had been invited to London for transportation talks, Banker Enrico Scaretti to Washington for Red Cross consultations. A common remark was: "Yes, that's very nice. Now let's wait and see what really happens...
...snapped Sir Thomas. "We clap him in the Tower!" By the time Sir Thomas was through, Mexico City's ornate marble Palacio de Bellas Artes resounded with some of the most warmly polished Mozart that Mexicans had ever heard. The audience at the opening night's Don Giovanni also approved Baritone John Brownlee's legs (the most beautiful Mexicans had seen since John Barrymore's Hamlet...
...fall and resurrection of mankind." (Tim Finnegan was originally the hero of an Irish vaudeville song who falls off a ladder and is thought to be dead until a friend splashes whiskey over him at the funeral wake.) The four parts of Joyce's novel reflect Italian Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vice's theory that history eternally passes and repasses through four phases: theocratic, aristocratic, democratic, chaotic. Finnegans Wake suggests that life has again reached the stage of chaos and is awaiting a divine thunderclap that will bring the world to its senses and start the four-part cycle...