Word: sotto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position of a man whose career is leading a double life, for the most remarkable demonstration of his fictional powers is a novel virtually unknown in the U.S. or abroad. As dark and demoniac as Pnin is gentle and sunlit, this novel has in the past year become a sotto voce scandal on two continents. Lolita, published in English by France's Olympia Press, gives the pornography-v.-art debate its most combustible tinder since Judge Woolsey handed down his famed decision on Ulysses...
...reason for the change is the vastly increased barrage of U.S. advertising ($9 billion in 1955, v. $3.4 billion in 1946). Says a Los Angeles agency executive: "We are suffering from fatigue of believability." To revive the customer, admen are turning increasingly to sotto voce selling: the eye-catching picture, the self-deprecating cartoon, the chuckle. Says one character: "I was a 99-lb. weakling. Then I bought a Carrier Room Air Conditioner. I'm still a 99-lb. weakling but, boy, is my bedroom nice and cool!" In Atlanta a cartoon colonel declares: "I'd even...
...Premier were inviting Frenchmen to use the London agreement as they had for four years used EDC, to delay Germany's sovereignty and rearmament while pretending to inch towards it. In effect, he was asking the Assembly to approve German rearmament in theory, while suggestting sotto voce that the new German army might never become a reality...
...almost a sotto voce footnote, Attlee declared that China's rulers maintained "far too many delusions about the West," but by and large, he had "been impressed by certain very definite reforms that, from all we could gather, marked a new departure in China." Attlee said that there was "evidence," although he cited none and admitted there was really very little, that "you have [there] a government that is incorruptible, that is genuinely working in accordance with the principles believed and has done some very remarkable pieces of work, a government based on the good will of the peasant...
...Soviet camps, Yurasov writes, all singing is forbidden. But the prisoners often sing sotto voce, occasionally raise their voices to a full chorus. Known from Karelia to Kamchatka is the song...