Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swiss professor maintained that the religious purpose of a passion play kept it from becoming "a tragedy as an independent work of art." The Greeks, he pointed out, never gave their drama the specifically liturgical purpose medieval culture did. Even Dante, he said, "lost a kindred understanding of the tragic texture," and thus made the goat the image of tragedy, for "offensive was its odor, and ugly its voice...
...were all Latin Americans them selves any less bearish. According to the best estimates, Latin Americans have $11 billion invested abroad and stashed away in U.S. and Swiss banks. How much went out last year is hard to pin down, but U.S. economists think the figure could be as high as $800 million. Said a Quito businessman, with feeling: "If all the capital abroad would return, Ecuador could be very well off. No basic foreign aid would be necessary...
Once, fame for a foreign star meant an almost automatic move to Hollywood and the purchase of a mansion in Beverly Hills. But more recently the traffic has been the other way. Stars who made their pile more often than not move to Paris, Rome or the Swiss Alps. Their children, who once might have gone to the Bel Air Town and Country School, now go to the International School in Geneva...
Bogs & Bourgeoisie. The stars tend to shed their early backgrounds and blend into new surroundings as well in Europe as they once did in Hollywood. East Harlem's Burt Lancaster, a sometime Swiss, settled his family in Palermo's great Villa Scalea during the filming of The Leopard, and there lived the life of an aging nobleman with yacht. A few Hollywood people, mainly writers such as Nunnally Johnson, are hearty enough to have settled comfortably in England, and the Paris group-Ingrid Bergman, Jean...
...Originally so that Swiss mercenaries could fight in the Continent's feudalistic wars without compromising their own land, later in order not to antagonize Switzerland's more powerful neighbors of modern Europe...