Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home to hubby. The second half acts out the Odyssey: Ulysses, a Spanish-American war veteran, imbibes city life at a neighboring seaport, goes to a water front dive, meets a Circe from the wrong side of the tracks, returns in the end to a Penelope busy with a patchwork quilt...
Themselves dealing with a patchwork of old legends, Latouche and Moross have yet contrived something attractively individual. The Golden Apple is much less satire meant to strike home than a front-porch-and-parlor version of Homer. The local Venus wins the golden apple in a pie-baking contest. The face that launched a thousand ships now sets perhaps a thousand tongues awagging. Scylla and Charybdis are a slick pair of brokers. The famed vanished song the sirens sang turns out to have...
Gershwin: Concerto in F (Leonard Pennario, pianist; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Steinberg; Capitol). After his Rhapsody in Blue tipped Manhattan on its ear in 1924, Gershwin got to work on his ambitious concerto. Less jazzy than its predecessor and more of a patchwork than old-line concertos, it nevertheless teems with vitality and fun. Pianist Pennario lays into his job with a will, and the orchestra turns in a high-spirited performance...
...price is high: unemployment. The solution. stated in its simplest form: government investment. The less radical of the British Socialists, e.g., the late Sir Stafford Cripps, followed Keynes (who died in 1946). Whatever may be said for or against him, Keynes was, essentially, the prophet of economic patchwork...
...Patchwork of Cliques. For a new leader, the country could hardly look beyond De Gasperi's own Christian Democrats, who hold 40% of the Parliament, against 35% for the Reds and Red Socialists, 13% for the Monarchists and neoFascists. But without a shrewd bargainer and clever parliamentarian like De Gasperi to coalesce them, the Christian Democrats are not so much a single team as a patchwork of conflicting blocs and cliques which stretch from modified socialism to near monarchism. As his first choice for new Premier, President Einaudi reached to the party's right wing and picked Attilio...