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...Revolution and the adolescent U.S. The Italian peninsula was a crux of this struggle. The Pope himself was a monarch, ruler of the states girdling the boot approximately from Naples to Venice, playing survival politics amid what historian Kertzer describes as "a patchwork of duchies, grand duchy, Bourbon and Savoyard kingdoms [and] Austrian outposts." Would-be nation builders plotted Italy's unification from the south and the north. Revolutionaries, writes Kertzer, goggled across papal borders at those who regarded "the notions that people should be free to think what it pleased them to think [as] heretical...
...great skier Jean-Claude Killy had earlier helped Albertville, France, secure the rights to the '88 Winter Games, and remembers how quickly things were evolving. "We didn't offer trips and lodging. We gave them little gifts, souvenirs like Savoyard knives and pens," he says. "Then the stakes became much more considerable...
...team and reporting on hockey and speed skating was deputy chief of correspondents Paul A. Witteman, who trained at Seoul and Calgary. Like most seasoned reporters, he was also adept at searching out the best rations. "The one constant at all Olympics seems to be pizza," he says. "The Savoyard version, perhaps because we are so close to Italy, is a clear winner...
...ARTHUR SULLIVAN: OVERTURES (Nimbus). From Patience to Pinafore, a Savoyard field day with the crack Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Alexander Faris...
...troupe made its first tour in 1879-80, for the premiere of Pirates of Penzance). Last week, after more than a century of continuous operation as a troupe, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company gave its last performance and disbanded. In the end there were not enough Savoyard loyalists to pay the costs of a 100-member company. The Arts Council of Great Britain, hard pressed to subsidize the National Theater and the Old Vic, rejected an appeal for funds. Sir. Charles Forte (created Lord Forte two months ago), of the Trusthouse Forte hotel chain, launched a fund drive...