Word: vasco
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...crusading tide ebbed, the Saracens picked off one beleaguered Christian fortress after another-Antioch, Tripoli, and finally, in 1291, Tyre and Acre. That was the end of the Prankish kingdom in the East, though the West went on talking for centuries of liberating Jerusalem (Vasco da Gama and Columbus both piously hoped to take it from the rear...
...tales, engineered by such masters as Stendhal, Flaubert, de Maupassant, are pitted in spots, but glow with the patina of timelessness. The Italian stories, put up in the hurry and scurry of the post-World War I decades by such contemporary literary architects as Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi and Vasco Pratolini, rock with life, and occasionally with shaky craftsmanship. American readers, surfeited with New Yorker-like tales of muted discontent, may find both collections refreshing reminders of what Italy's Ignazio Silone calls "the really important events of life-birth, love, suffering, death...
...ships put out into the Caribbean from Santo Domingo (now Ciudad Trujillo), capital of the Spanish empire in the New World. They were headed for Urabá, on the South American mainland, with 150 settlers eager for land and gold. On one ship was a stowaway: Vasco Núñez de Balboa, an adventurer who came aboard in a provisions barrel to escape his creditors...
...Naked Streets is another skillful piece of Italian fiction-and another example of the seemingly endless backlog of Italian writing that finds its belated way to U.S. publication. Vasco Pratolini wrote The Naked Streets in 1943, between chores in the resistance movement, and first published it eight years...
What a person says is conveyed adequate by radio and it makes poor economy to pay about five times a given amount invested in radio just to see what the speaker books like. Harvard professors never win beauty contests, but what they say amounts to considerable sense, generally. Vasco McCoy...