Word: rapallo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Willy Brandt turned his back on twenty-five years of German guilt-ridden subservience, and pursued a vigorous Ostpolitik designed to reconcile West Germany with its Eastern neighbors and provide West German diplomacy with a greater freedom of maneuver. Despite European fears that Brandt was about to engineer another Rapallo, and bitter domestic criticism that the Chancellor was conceding too much to the Soviets, Brandt was succesful in liquidating legal and territorial disputes that had poisoned relations with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries for three decades. In 1972, Bonn took the most difficult diplomatic step of it short...
...DOESN'T TAKE much to begin to understand what Ezra Pound was like. He and Ernest Hemingway were good--if not close--friends, at least up until the mid-1930s. In 1933 Hemingway had written to Pound in Rapallo, Italy to say that it was from Pound that he had learned more about "how to write and how not to write than from any son of a bitch alive." Pound was an unquestionably important influence on literature in the first half of this century. But by 1934 Hemingway's impressions were shifting. Joyce had asked him to come along with...
From a cottage in Rapallo, Italy, Pound promoted his monetary and racist ideas as energetically as he had promoted poetry. When Mussolini granted him an audience, he was utterly taken in. "There is too much future," he wrote in a floating euphoria, "and only me and Muss to attend...
...butts struck the door of the apartment near Rapallo where Pound lived à trois with his wife Dorothy and his mistress of many years, a violinist named Olga Rudge. He was taken to a military stockade near Pisa and installed on death row in a steel cage 6 ft. square and open to all weathers. After three weeks of treatment designed to break the spirits of the most hardened criminals, Pound suffered a severe emotional breakdown...
...happy days were soon gone. At eleven, Mary left her gentle Tyrolean guardians to live with Pound in Rapallo. As World War II approached, he became more and more infatuated with Mussolini. In 1939, alarmed by Franklin Roosevelt's opposition to the Axis powers, he went to Washington to "talk some sense into the President." Roosevelt refused to see him. When the U.S. entered the war, Pound delivered a series of rambling and vaguely anti-American diatribes on Radio Roma. According to Mary, he did not really intend to betray his country but to persuade it with right reason...