Word: towns
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...created what is still today virtually regarded as four different states. In the rugged but temperate north, they built San Francisco, a swashbuckling port city that reflected equally the liberal influence of Europe and the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S.; hence the light touch of cosmopolitanism that suffuses the town. Those who populated the rolling, semitropical south?especially in the years during and following World War II?were mostly the staid Midwesterners and Southerners who came to buy so many square feet of sunshine, and the blue-collar workers who filled the factories; hence the heavy strain of conservatism that...
...fares over the North Atlantic are so jumbled that Italian airline officials sardonically refer to them as "spaghetti," the Germans call them "sauerkraut" and the Americans say that they are "for the birds." Yet, after three weeks of wrangling in the usually placid Swiss town of Lausanne, representatives of the 22 scheduled lines that fly the Atlantic were unable to agree on new, uniform rates. The result last week was that the Atlantic lines began operating under an anarchy called the "open rate." That means that until they agree on rates they can charge almost any fare that they want...
...Island-to make an important announcement: he has enlisted in the Army to see if he can love the enemy up close as he does from afar. But nobody listens. Dad and Mom (Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright) are too busy bickering. His crippled brother is off tomcatting around town, wishing he were fit enough to fight...
...then, the whole wine-rich village is melancholy-until it learns that the Germans are coming to take over the town and its only treasure, vino. Bombolini, the town drunk, is hastily proclaimed mayor. His single responsibility: to hide a million bottles of vermouth. His metamorphosis from clown to hero -and what he does with the wine-provides The Secret of Santa Vittoria...
Charles meets Sarah Woodruff, a dark, intense governess who has been ostracized by the town for having a flagrant, fleeting affair with a French naval lieutenant. For Fowles, the unrepentant Sarah embodies the qualities that Victorian society tended to repress-passion and imagination. In the forbidden love that grows between her and Charles. Fowles foreshadows the undermining of an entire epoch. In Sarah's eventual rejection of Charles, to take up a bohemian existence in the house of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fowles projects the first glimmer of a new and freer...