Word: neo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newly extended apron stage (designed to achieve neo-Elizabethan intimacy), see a forgettable version of Two Gentlemen from Verona mounted on a revolving stage, a tricked-up Twelfth Night, and a fine Taming of the Shrew, starring Peggy Ashcroft. ¶ Ontario's Stratford, a 1953 offshoot of England's, and heavily Anglicized in cast and directors, was originally housed in a huge tent, eight miles from the town of Shakespeare; the festival moved indoors-in 1957, and its parasol-roofed theater makes Ontario's the only Stratford with true arena staging. More a purist than a tourist...
...Hollywood studios dissolved into a clutter of independent producers and corporate stars. But Hollywood's economic revolution soon developed into a worldwide revolution of another kind. In France and Poland, a band of gifted and dedicated young moviemakers, inspired by the example of Italy's neo-realists and Sweden's Ingmar Bergman, plunged into a daring and promising renovation of the art of film. Working on tiny budgets without benefit of studio facilities or well-known actors, the men of the Nouvelle Vague (TIME, Nov. 16) in a single year produced at least three pictures-Black Orpheus...
...been in and out of Christian Democratic governments for seven years, most recently as the Finance Minister whose hardfisted fiscal policies have helped make the lira one of the world's soundest currencies. On his first try over three weeks ago, Tambroni offered a rightist Cabinet dependent on neo-Fascist votes in the Assembly, but many of his fellow Christian Democrats found such a naked lash-up with the Fascists obnoxious...
Last week as pressing business piled up, Tambroni returned to win a 128-110 majority in the Senate. "My government will be transitory," he said. Tambroni's Cabinet is still dependent on neo-Fascists in the Assembly, but has pledged to confine itself to housekeeping. Supported by an expanding economy, it will concentrate on getting a budget passed, keep the ministries manned through the summer of Rome's Olympic Games...
Into Rome's White House, the Quirinal palace, last week slipped a familiar visitor. Seven weeks after the downfall of Antonio Segni's center-right government and one week after the failure of Fernando Tambroni to form a rightist government nakedly dependent on Italy's neo-Fascists for a parliamentary majority, tough little Amintore Fanfani, 52, was asked to paste together another Christian-Democratic coalition...