Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find himself out of a job. Fanfani is shrewd, not simpatico; behind his back, critics call him and his aides i bassotti (the dachshunds). More than Fanfani's looks and cold political style are against him. A 6% jump in living costs last year touched off a prolonged wave of strikes by industrial and whitecollar workers; fortnight ago, 5,000,000 workers quit their jobs in a one-day general walkout. Fanfani's year-old partnership with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left), has sharply divided the Premier...
...those who survived, many got to the U.S. - a whole new wave of emigre musicians who enriched American musical life...
...taught courses in music appreciation, then goes out to round up contributions to fill in the orchestra's immense deficit. The musicians, astonished at being celebrities, have largely resigned themselves to the occasional pain of Szell's whip; 67 of them now own homes in Cleveland, butchers wave to them at the supermarket, and, as one says, "even the bank knows you have roots if you're in the orchestra...
Most of these plays are comedies of horrors, but all of them, in strange and curious ways, beat with a quivering sense of present-day life. The wave of off-Broadway excitement and support for such playwrights as Beckett (Krapp's Last Tape) and Genet (The Balcony) made possible the precarious on-Broadway beachheads of Pinter (The Caretaker) and Ionesco (Rhinoceros). Genet, who is less an absurdist than a perversely erotic symbolist poet of the theater, is a perfect example of the kind of playwright Broadway will still not touch, to its considerable loss. His The Blacks, now well...
Although the doctors are fairly certain that a further wave of cases is on the way, they see no evidence that there will be another epidemic as large as the one at Harvard...