Word: perugian
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...exported, the nation's cultural ideology. From the first years of this century, with flickering images of cowboys and comic tramps, the movies were America's most glamorous way of advertising itself to the world. The bustling genius of the American system ensured that to a Peruvian or a Perugian, "the movies" meant Hollywood. And the stars bred within that system sold the movies' myth about America. A Manhattan penthouse became the top of the world when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced through it; the canyons of Arizona were the promised land as long as John Wayne patrolled them...
...Sunday, May 10, Agca returned to Rome, checking in at the Pensione Isa, a colorless boardinghouse that is about a 15-min. walk from St. Peter's Square. It was there that police searched Room 31 and found Agca's Perugian student card, his false passport, an extra cartridge clip for the Browning and the letter in Turkish boasting of the Pope's death. In the familiar tones of 1979, it denounced "Russian and American imperialism" and made John Paul the scapegoat for both...
...Perugian Civilization", Professor Post, Fogg Large Room...
...Perugian Civilization", Professor Post, Fogg large Room...
Last week at Perugia the inference to be drawn from this ancient History was stark and plain. What was a Roman lake may become an Italian mill pond. While II Duce spoke, many a Perugian tingled with imperial dreams, forgot that the immediate occasion for ecstasy was the dedication by Premier Mussolini of a new college intended for foreign students at the ancient University of Perugia...
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