Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Going, going, gone was another vestige of Venetian elegance, knocked down by the gondola-load to smaller-than-life nobodies representing Swiss antique dealers, dubious shops on Madison Avenue, secretive European and American collectors, and doubtless some ambassadors from small countries, intent on robbing Italy's art treasures via the diplomatic pouch...
...deep regard" for them. But Reischauer's diplomatic nonchalance was not enough to reassure the mortified Japanese government: the Home Affairs Minister, who had lost more face than Reischauer had blood, resigned. Next day Premier Hayato Ikeda so-sorried in Japanese (with English subtitles) directly to the U.S. via Relay II satellite. As far as Ambassador Reischauer was concerned, the whole affair was just another opportunity to cement Nipponese-American relations. The blood transfusions during surgery, he insisted, had made him a "true son of Japan, a mixed-blood child...
Private Zeal. In many respects, IRI behaves like a private enterprise. President Petrilli, 51, a gracious economics professor who directs the many-sided complex from a baroque building on Rome's Via Veneto, encourages the chiefs of its 130 companies to stand on their own with a minimum of bureaucratic stuffiness. IRI has sold to private investors up to 45% of the stock in some of its individual companies, has joined in ventures with U.S. Steel and Raytheon. Italy's leftists have damned IRI as a thinly disguised capitalist entity; on the other hand, conservatives have complained that...
...dovelike creature, all too easily undone by the serpentine charms of Old World society. Not everybody can accept James's lingering stereotype nowadays. But no one more volubly refutes it than pixyish, thirtyish Elaine Dundy, a Long Islander of a different feather entirely. She fluttered into London via a year in Paris in 1950, soon nested high in the cultural Establishment as the wife of Drama Critic Ken neth Tynan, and has since chronicled the peregrinations of a pair of non-innocents abroad in a pair of small, bright novels...
...play itself, according to Samuel Pepys (via the Program Notes), is "silly." It is. It is also genuinely dirty, and all the dirt is delivered by the actors with intelligent attention and commendable relish. The plot, however, swells to unmanageable length and complication. The Dunster Players gives us the full performance, and unfortunately it plays till midnight...