Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Watch is at its readable best when it describes people and places: poverty-stricken slum dwellers in a Rome suburb, a garrulous waiter, fellow passengers on an auto trip to Naples, the palace where he lived in Rome, with a staircase so spacious that G.I.s drove up & down it in their jeeps. These are bits & pieces, some of them very good, but they cannot make a book and they do not begin to make a novel. At 48, Carlo Levi is still the middling painter who wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli...
...Mexico City suburb where she lives in a high-walled, green-gated house, Natalia Trotsky was silent...
...once, Schiller disappears. For two years the government wallows along without him. Then a house burns down in a Berlin suburb, and Schiller's body is found in the ruins, along with the corpse of another man. His wife gives her evidence: in reading an N-ray photograph of her, Schiller saw the image of another man. Insanely jealous, he had dropped everything and devoted two years to finding the fellow. In the end. he had burned the house down around both of them...
Married. King Farouk of Egypt, 31; and Narriman Sadek, 17, commoner daughter of one of the groom's civil servants; he for the second time, she for the first; in a suburb of Cairo (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Farewell to the Grand Style. The Enclosure is an exclusive suburb obviously set on Boston's North Shore. A faintly Renaissance gate opening on ten driveways, houses ranging in style from Jacobean to classical revival, a very private beach, old families not merely rich but entirely accustomed to it-this is the special world about which Ethan Ayer writes. His book is a portfolio of vignettes: the well-bred old snobs, the new, vulgar rich, the wealthy young weaklings and, behind all these, the pompous and romantic servants...