Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montini's names had been forged to the orders. Their findings led directly to blond, youngish Monsignor Eduardo Prettner Cippico, a well-born native of Trieste and a Vatican archivist. Though his salary was meager, Cippico owned an 18,000,000-lire apartment in Rome, an Alfa Romeo, a Fiat and a Chrysler. He liked to entertain expensively. The day before Easter last year, waiters at a fashionable restaurant at Posillipo, near Naples, had their hopes of an afternoon off dashed when Cippico phoned that he would be lunching there at 3. He spent the afternoon beside...
Pinings. But beneath the smooth, light surfaces of these stories there is a highly moral awareness of the inadequacies of contemporary life and the yearnings in every man for something better. When mocking the plight of a shopkeeper sentimentalist whose notions of marriage have been shaped by Romeo and Juliet but whose experience of it has been soured by a frigid, all too high-minded wife, O'Connor redeems the character from mere ridiculousness by noting that "he knew he could never be like any other sensible man, but would keep on to the day he died, pining...
...Romeo, his voice shaky with emotion, breathed into the microphone: "By yawnder blessed moon I swear. . . ." What was Milton Berle doing under that balcony? He was acting Romeo and Juliet. And it was no gag. The new show, Play It Straight (on Manhattan's WNEW), would give radio's funnymen a chance to indulge their traditional and unsinkable ambition to play Hamlet-or any other long-faced role they fancied...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Maurice Evans and Dorothy McGuire in Romeo and Juliet...
...regret that Stevenson "arrived so late at the discovery of the kind of writing in which alone real greatness lies." Real greatness is not as choosy as its critics, and Stevenson's best adventure stories share a shelf with the Iliad, the Canterbury Tales, the Arabian Nights, Romeo and Juliet, Robinson Crusoe, The Gold Bug and The Three Musketeers...