Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first postwar years were mostly business, buckling down to help his father manage the family millions (real estate, oil, natural gas), sailing only occasionally and then just for fun. When he finally did return to competition in 1949, Bus did it with a broadside: he skippered a 33-ft. International One-Design sloop to victory in the Amorita Cup in Bermuda, then sailed a 6-meter to victory in the British-American Cup at the Isle of Wight. As the song goes, it was a very good year: at a Manhattan cocktail party that September, he met Patricia Ryan...
Died. Vittorio Valletta, 84, managing director from 1928 to 1966 of Italy's Fiat, world's fourth-ranking automaker and the country's second biggest private industry, a tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) onetime math professor who signed on in 1921 to help Founder Giovanni Agnelli consolidate World War I growth, deftly steered the company through depression, dictatorship and World War II, then, with organizational genius and Marshall Plan cash, embarked on a vast expansion and diversification program that resulted in $1.66 billion in sales last year at his retirement; of a stroke; in Marina di Pietrasanta...
...knows right off what his problem is: alienation. "Diddy merely inhabits his life," the author says. "One can redeem skeletons and abandoned cities as human. But not a lost, dehumanized nature." God knows Diddy tries. He falls in love with the blind girl, marries her in an attempt to help them both...
Unquestionably, Susan Sontag tries too. The novel is arduously worked out, with the author always at the reader's elbow, adding explanations ("to a man wielding a microscope, his own seeing eyes are blind"), pointing out high spots, summing up. The only thing she could do (now) to help the book would be to write one of her well-reasoned essays to explain why she wrote...
...then he cose a designer. As some kind of answer to Chicago's Picasso, quondam director Timothy Mayer has burst upon the world of set design with his impression of a giant grass-hopper with muscular dystrophy. It is supposed to be a cage of pipe that with the help of movable clothes racks and imaginative props can smoothly transform itself into the show's nine sets. The rearrangement of schematic sets by openly visible stagehands is a standard cliche of modern direction, especially for Brecht, where we're all supposed to be aware we're in a theater...