Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WINE OF ETNA (255 pp.)-Alexander Baron-Ives Washburn...
...Wine of Etna's hero, hulking, hamhanded Sergeant Craddock, the order to move back into battle was heartbreaking. With war-widowed Graziella, he had discovered a passion which his own wife back in England had denied him. But Graziella got nowhere when she pleaded with him to desert and stay with her. Sergeant Craddock loved honor more. Said he: "I am a soldier. You have known that all the time...
Flecked with bright, buoyant writing, The Wine of Etna remembers Catania's brief occupation by front-line infantrymen as an idyllic pause in the bloody Italian campaign. Author Baron's fast-focusing snapshot technique discovers little depth or complication in his Tommies and Italians, but he manages admirably to capture the highlights of their brief encounter...
...programs for the next six days, all printed in the same book along with the menu and wine list, promise increasing levity. The concerts should become once again the more equally mixed social and musical occasion they have been in the past. If you have never been to the Pops it is practically essential that you go. To spend four years at Harvard without going to the Pops is to leave one's education lacking...
From Manhattan, the tabloid Daily News recalled with leering glee that the judge had once seen a musical called Wine, Women & Song three times before testifying that a strip-tease dancer had "turned her back . . . and rotated her buttocks." Gossipist Hedda Hopper noted that he was "the guy who made trouble for practically every studio in town" two years ago as the temporary head of the industry's self-censoring production code office. Sniffed Daily Variety: COOL RECEPTION ACCORDED PEEKER AT H'D MORALS...