Word: silvestri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From a national standpoint, everyone is purchasing display items a lot earlier and asking for earlier deliveries," reports Merle Hayward, an executive of the Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co., the U.S.'s largest Christmas-and general-display firm, and a 1966 study by the National Retail Merchants comes to the same conclusion. By last week all five major Manhattan department stores had their holiday toylands open for trade, and their Christmas boutiques were stuffed with wrappings, gifts, cards and decorations. Such cities as Portland, Ore., may still wait until the day after Thanksgiving to trim their streets, but Elmsford...
...Real Silvestri, by Mario Soldati. An old friend learns shocking things about the title figure after his death, and the author skillfully rephrases an old truth-that most people know of others only what it is comfortable to know...
...Real Silvestri, by Mario Soldati. An old friend learns shocking things about the title figure after his death, and the author skillfully rephrases an old truth-that most people know of others only what it is comfortable to know...
When Aurora comes to Italy from France at war's end, she brings gentle Silvestri to his knees at first meeting. Unfortunately for him, she is completely dominated by an American friend of his who has easily slipped from military government into real estate. Aurora's show-girl history is slightly tawdry, but her stunning figure and simple mind persuade Silvestri that she is his great love. To Aurora, Silvestri is a hapless, tiresome romantic. What she wants is a real man, preferably one with money. As it turns out, she finds both, but not in the same...
...story is unfolded five years after Silvestri's death by a mutual friend, a middle-aged Italian lawyer who looks on Silvestri as a kind of saint. The heart of the novel lives in the juxtaposed pictures that emerge from the recollections of the devoted friend and the disgusted woman. By the time Aurora is finished with her account, the old friend has been shaken, and by book's end he knows an old truth but one not easily come by: that people know about others only what is comfortable to know. The "real Silvestri...