Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Hopkins) Sherwood told the New York Times Magazine how he had found, among the newly opened archives of his old friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, some unpublished correspondence between F.D.R. and the late William Allen White, philosopher-publisher of Emporia, Kans. One of the letters, which had contained a snapshot of F.D.R. in one of his favorite seersucker suits, began "Dear Bill: Here is the seersucker picture, duly inscribed by the sucker to the seer...
David E. Lighthill of "314" designed the poll as a "snapshot of the College," and made it a cross between a poll on personal habits and one on social issues. Members of the Social Relations department checked the questionnaire...
Quick Riches. Maggiorani's own story began in the spring of 1948, when his plump, eternally optimistic wife Giuseppina pushed him into the movie. With a snapshot of their ten-year-old son Enrico, she had answered a call at De Sica's office for a small boy. Maggiorani was in the snapshot too, and the movie people liked his looks for the role of Antonio. He balked. He had worked for 16 years as a machinist in the Breda steel works, and the job was good enough to support his wife and three children. "A steady...