Word: te
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a month the Italian senate had sought refuge in such nice-nellyisms as "case di tolleranza" (houses of tolerance), "case da te" (tea houses) or "persiane chiuse" (closed shutters). Last week, white-maned, octogenarian Gaetano Pieraccini lost his patience. "I am a plain doctor and a Florentine," he cried. "I call bread bread, wine wine and a brothel a brothel." No matter what they called it, Italian senators could no longer evade the issue: whether or not to close Italy's bordellos...
...tropical market places, voodoo rites and deities, scenes from the black nation's bloody history. But the most effective pictures in last week's show were those that made no effort to be beautiful and that sacrificed the esoteric for the immediate. Préfète Dufaut's childlike Harbor at Jacmel was as flat, bright and familiar as any postcard, and Wilson Bigaud's self-portrait behind bars had the harshness of a flashbulb photo. Even these, standouts though they were, lacked most of the qualities that critics associate with good painting...
...Maoris, the visitor was Te Rangi Hiroa (The-Heavens-Streaked-with-the-Sun). The outside world knows him as Sir Peter Buck, onetime member of New Zealand's Parliament, major in World War I, now head of Honolulu's Bishop Museum, traveling professor at Yale and the world's leading authority on Polynesian anthropology. To the Pacific Science Congress, meeting at Auckland last week, Sir Peter brought along some distinguished delegates. Under his guidance they came to learn more about his mother's people, the vigorous islanders who fought the New Zealand whites until...
...white farmer-clergyman sent Peter to the Te Aute College for Maoris, where he made top marks at both books and sports. He graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Otago in 1904 and went back to his mother's people as a government health officer. In 1909, he was elected to Parliament and soon became a member of the cabinet. In World War I, he won the Distinguished Service Order as second in command of the Maori Battalion...
...should far rather make a slip with you than be on the right side even with the whole Academy-and [Anatole] France would, too. Indeed, it would be delightful to make a slip with you." His passion for the Creole never went beyond an "amour de tête...