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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolutionary idea of the covered market. It seemed the last word in shopping, and for the next 18 centuries it was the last word-in Italy. Every weekday morning for those 1,800-odd years, the Italian housewife (or her maid) set out on the same ritualistic, time-consuming round...
Lessening the Pressure. Some world bankers were skeptical of such a fund when first proposed because it smacked too much of funny money. But more of them have been coming round to the view that such a fund is necessary to finance vitally needed development programs that the bank cannot back because they contain individual projects that will not pay off. With the proposed new fund, the bank, for example, could finance a dam, while the IDA could finance nonself-liquidating projects needed to develop the area around the dam. One big point in IDA's favor: it would...
...islanders were rushing to Heyerdahl with the contents of their "secret" ancestral caves-small stone skulls and images, artifacts and wood carvings-which he excitedly declares "were entirely different from all ancient and modern art hitherto known from Easter Island." Heyerdahl became an initiate of sacred rites. He crept round the island at night, eating chickens buried according to formula in earth ovens, muttering incantations to placate hostile aku-akus, shouting out ritual invocations such as: "Wizard Juan, stand up for good luck!" Only slowly did it dawn on Heyerdahl that the natives might be hipsters who were taking...
Since each age re-creates legend in its own image, it is tempting to see Author T. H. White's King Arthur of the Round Table in the role of an idealized Secretary-General of the U.N. But The Once and Future King is considerably more fascinating than that, as it knits together the funny, the moving, the fanciful and the psychologically astute in a rich tapestry of the medieval age of chivalry...
...sweet-natured sovereign is troubled by feudal underlords who feel free to have their peasants basted over slow fires or sprinkled with molten lead. Merlyn plants a revolutionary idea in the King's head, to enlist Might in the cause of Right, and Arthur begins to recruit the Round Table. This, of course, brings the peerless Sir Lancelot to court, to Queen Guenever and to the cuckoldry of poor, long-suffering Arthur. Author White tastefully tucks the 20-odd-year dalliance of "Lance" and "Jenny" between the lines rather than between the sheets. What with the lovers' nagging...