Word: readers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millions of newspaper-reader Italians, black-eyed Assunta Maresca, 24, has become known affectionately as Pupetta ("Little Doll"). Though northern Italians often deplore the vendetta morality of the south, Neapolitans hailed Pupetta as a worthy descendant of the old Camorra-the "honor societies" hired by noblemen to settle their differences by duels and vendettas. The noblemen have disappeared; today's Camorra members grew up in the thriving black markets of World War II, and boast that they even disassembled and stole an entire U.S. ship piece by piece-from the Bay of Naples.* Among those who lived...
...enlightening because Williams attempts a systematic historical account of the origins of modern diplomacy; it is disquieting because in his observations he challenges fundamental assumptions of the Western point-of-view. And if the Williams analysis does not strike the reader as totally valid, it at least drives home the point that the American outlook has a significant ideological, non-objective tinge...
...Reader Weesner is right. Alexander Guterma resigned from...
...Communists' real purpose lay at bottom of their inability to see the need of helping Chennault and China more than they did. Flying Tiger is written by a fighting man who sees above all the tragedy of Claire Chennault. But by this time, every thinking U.S. reader will realize that the greater tragedy was that of his own country and of China...
...feckless Oliver, he either seduces or proves irresistible to: 1) his father's gardener's daughter, 2) a blowzy barmaid, 3) a golddigger, 4) a bohemian nymphomaniac, 5) his elder brother's fiancée. Oliver may be just a crazy mixed-up cad to the reader, but in a fatuously psychiatrical reconciliation scene, Oliver's father shoulders the blame: "I think perhaps you represented to me the little daughter I never had and always longed for." A Sunnylands Granger would have the answer to that one: "Not bloody likely...