Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About houses Berenson has written, "It is a machine a vivre, if you like, as there is a similar machine our bodies, but like my body my house has a soul--I hope." It has indeed. The exterior of I Tatti with its light walls, gardens and terraces is one of those sumptuous affairs the romantics of old would have called a "typical Italian villa." Internally it is unique. Berenson has also observed that a house can be "part of one's raiment, the outerrost garment. ..." It is a perfect description of I Tatti, an instrument for and product...
Would that there were more time at I Tatti. A whirlwind tour of the museum Berenson, for it is literally that, doesn't suffice even for a first look. But Berenson would be awaiting his visitors at Casa al Dono. Time remained only for a few photographs. The Tuscan light, often over-brilliant, favors subjects admirably. A deep grey light of great clarity pronounced the rich earth colors of the Sassetta-like hills with their patterned bushes. The occasional pieces of white sculpture became phantasmal objects in their arbors of thick foliage. The tall veridian poplars of Piero della Francesa...
...plane in flight. Litton also lured other top brains away from big companies by granting stock options. Dr. Henry Singleton left North American Aviation for Litton, where in three years he produced the answer to one of the Pentagon's toughest problems: an inertial guidance system that is light enough (50 lbs. v. 500 to 1,000 Ibs. for earlier systems) to steer the most sophisticated missiles...
...released generally in the U.S., has drawn quick comparison to Shoeshine, Vittorio De Ska's 1947 Italian classic. The comparison, apparently based on the similarity of titles, is unfortunate. The two films move in opposite directions-Shoeshine despairingly toward the lower depths, Boot Polish wistfully toward the light. More importantly, their coupling might becloud the fact that Boot Polish is a nearly flawless little gem of a fable that glows with its own brilliance, without need of outside illumination...
Nobody Heard. The carnage caused by the torpedoes was bad enough, but what happened next resulted in the deadliest single-ship disaster the U.S. Navy ever suffered at sea. Why and how it happened is the theme of Richard Newcomb's book, which sheds sharp new light on a tragedy aggravated by bumbling...