Word: winings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy flow of foot traffic. To sustain the festival atmosphere, Thompson also preferred small, owner-run businesses. Says he: "I went over the idea of the marketplace and asked if there was an economic way to have just one man selling eggs, one selling cheese, another some marvelous wine. We decided if we could get enough people doing it, it would work." The result: 13 restaurants and 137 stores...
...Basilica. It was there, says Ryan, that he picked up much of his rough talent in German and certain Slavic dialects. He speaks French well but English dreadfully. His personal habits are not forbiddingly ascetic. He smokes cigarettes and an occasional cigar and, like nearly every Italian, enjoys his wine...
...Ignazio Silone, 78, Italian novelist and a founding member of his country's Communist Party in 1921; in Geneva. Driven into Swiss exile by Mussolini's blackshirts for his political activities, Si-lone wrote two bitterly anti-Fascist and well-received novels, Fontamara (1930) and Bread and Wine (1936). Returning to Italy in 1944, he had a second fling with politics, then retired to his writing...
...Algonquin Round Table. As a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the '30s and '40s, "Mank" continued to shoot from the quip. Dining at the home of a pretentious gourmet, he suddenly rushed to the bathroom. "Don't worry," he assured his host later, "the white wine came up with the fish." When movie attendance dropped, he offered a unique solution: "Show the movies in the streets, and drive the people back into the theaters...
Among the items found by the archaeologists are buttons, porcelain, chicken bones, pipe stems and what Roberts terms "typical college material": beer steins and wine bottle fragments. Many of the artifacts date from the 1600s. In addition to the Harvard Hall site, artifacts were found by Grays Hall and Wadsorth House. Roberts said that the latter site seems to have been the town dump, which is an archaeologist's treasure trove...