Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Metropolitan's joy was raising a sorrowful echo in Rome. Sebastian, it appeared, had belonged to the family of a Fascist nobleman, Count Francesco de Larderel, who fled Florence ahead of the liberation. Charging that the picture had been illegally smuggled out of Italy, the Italian government asked the U.S. State Department's help in tracing the story down...
Thus, during a recent revival at Budapest's Fovarosi Theater of the operetta Countess Maritza (vintage 1924), sang Count Tassilo Endrodi, the impoverished Hungarian nobleman who for the first time in his life has to work for a living. His plaintive song was timely enough to make a lot of Budapest theatergoers squirm. No longer may Hungarian gypsy fiddlers play as they please, nor may Count Endrodi cry into his Tokay with impunity. The Communists have clamped down on nostalgia...
Toward the end Author Costain tries to liven things up a bit. Félicité is dragged by her ankles, with her pretty thighs exposed, by her brutal nobleman husband whom she has been forced to marry, is beaten by him with a cudgel "not thicker than a man's thumb," and is kidnaped by Indians. This, presumably, is what readers of this kind of novel have been waiting for, but it is a long wait, and they are in for further dull stretches before virtue and justice at last prevail...
Once, the two philosophers were names that made news. "Ye gods!" a nobleman of Paris exclaimed. "Everywhere I go, I hear talk of nobody but this Rousseau and this Diderot . . . People of the lowest sort, people who do not even own their own houses, who live on the fourth floor . . ." Today, except for a few scholars, people talk a good deal less about Diderot than they do of Rousseau. Students who learn of Diderot in college are apt to classify him as one of the great French Encyclopedists, learn too little of his novels, plays and essays. If they remembered...
...result of a lark, the children and their tutor find themselves lost in the mountains, penniless and hungry. They stumble through the parched and worn country; they are chased out of the estate of a decrepit Fascist nobleman; and they are finally held captive by an anti-Fascist fugitive, Renato Spinelli, who fears that they would unwittingly betray him if he let them go. The haggard Spinelli plans a heroic public death for himself, since he knows that he cannot escape. But Frances falls in love with him and persuades him to try to escape with her, only to involve...