Word: tyroler
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...Pound's middle and later years, a gifted violinist named Olga Rudge. Since little Mary was a by-blow and an inconvenience -Olga, Pound and Mrs. Pound all moved in the same European artistic circles-she was boarded from birth with a farm family in the Italian Tyrol. Mary's first memory of her Tattile, as her foster parents called Pound, is of a pair of shiny shoes she was not allowed to touch. On another visit, alarmed at her farm-girl fingernails and unbrushed teeth, Tattile bought her a toothbrush and personally gave her a manicure. Mamile...
...life-now married and the mother of two, she lives in a castle in the Italian Tyrol-Mary writes gracefully but modestly. Pound is the major figure in her book, and she willingly plays Cordelia to his Lear. Perhaps at times she adds too soft a shading to the fierce old face-who could begrudge him that? Who would not be glad to hear that he and Olga are still together in old age, "taking care of each other"? Who could not envy him the vision he rescued out of horror...
...sphere above the earth. Though it looks nothing like the studies in ideal proportion by Italian artists he had seen in Venice, her body in fact incorporates an intricate proportional scheme, while the landscape that spreads below is a microscopically accurate rendering of the village of Chiuso, in South Tyrol, through which Dürer had passed on his way across the Alps...
...just 30 miles from Val d'Isère, the home town of Skier Jean-Claude Killy, where 42 people were killed last month when a massive slab of snow thundered into a youth hostel. Still another series of avalanches last week caused nine deaths in the Austrian Tyrol, and three more died in Italy's Apennine Range about 100 miles southeast of Rome...
...snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna Are not very pure or true. With my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack...