Word: polis
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...palace itself, properly known as the Palazzo Poli, holds no art treasures; but its south side forms a backdrop for Trevi fountain, conceived in 1630 by Architect Giovanni Bernini, and built more than 100 years later, chiefly by Nicola Salvi. Hollywood added to the fountain's fame with its Three Coins in the Fountain, and Rome's moviemakers did their bit by dunking Anita Ekberg in its great marble basin for a high-voltage, low-décolletage scene in La Dolce Vita...
...full of color and exciting contrasts, the heroic score was never overwhelming, always deft in its handling of a myriad of descriptive effects. And the weightiness of the theme was relieved by occasional touches of humor, most strikingly with the singing of the three-headed Geryones (Tenors Pier Francesco Poli, Pieo de Palma, Sergio Pezzetti), which sounded a little like Tnrandot's Ping. Pang and Pong in flamenco...
...Canavan never lets practical poli tics escape the discipline of theory. A member of the American Political Science Association, he spent a year in England researching a recently published book, The Political Reason of Edmund Burke: "The fascinating thing about Burke was that he was able to reconcile morality with politics...
...Pounding the table for emphasis, he told the white supremacists that "we reject the idea of any inherent superiority of one race over another." He knew South Africa's problems, but "I hope you won't mind my saying frankly that there are some aspects of your poli cies which make it impossible for us to support you without being false to our own deep convictions about the political destinies of free...
...minor, unspecified jobs in the government apparatus. But there was a curious dichotomy about the lose-and-live policy: the avidly curious Russian public had been told nothing about these shifts, instead was being treated to a stepped-up hate-and-horror campaign. All . over the Soviet Union, haranguing poli-truks were laying the basis for what could be a monster show trial of Malenkov on the charge of having organized a mysterious, little known (outside the Communist Party) 1949 conspiracy called "the Leningrad Case...