Word: leopard
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...four main species: hard-looking City People, College Students, Way-Out-of-Towners, and You. Within those classifications are countless inevitables: the girl with the white orchid pinned to her evening bag (first nightclub? first anniversary?); the short-haired sophomores being smoked by pipes; the woman with the leopard blouse and the tumbling, bright blonde hair; battered men with battered credit cards, wearing off-white ties. The expense-account mood is almost never really drunken and almost never really blithe. Nobody seems to feel thoroughly comfortable...
...LEOPARD, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. The author, a Sicilian prince, did not live to see his book published and become a bestseller in both Europe and the U.S. The hero is his own autocratic great-grandfather; in grave, glowing prose the story tells how Sicily's great landowners were brought low by revolution and their own stubborn resistance to change. Probably Italy's finest postwar novel...
...Leopard, Di Lampedusa...
...Leopard, Di Lampedusa...
...Leopard, Di Lampedusa...