Word: villa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More important, perhaps, than Berenson's scholarly achievements were his extensive contributions to the education of young scholars. "B.B." opened his villa, "I Tatti," to students who wished to use his enormous library and art collection, and to learn from his brilliant, instructive conversation. For those who have known "B.B.", for those who have experienced his incisive intellect through his numerous writings, or for those who have seen the fruits of Berenson's taste exhibited in major art collections both here and abroad, it will be impossible to forget his personality and achievement...
...surveyed the blue Pacific from his villa in the resort town of Atami last week, Japan's Premier Nbbusuke Kishi had an ache in his stomach ("Probably an off-color shrimp"), but he had joy in his heart. A year ago, Kishi's control over his faction-ridden Liberal Democratic Party was shaky and his popularity with Japan's masses at an alltime low. Last week his control over his cohorts was clear and undisputed, and his stock with the public soaring. "Today," said a Western diplomat, "Kishi is Mister Japan...
...Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei; Sergei, 24, an electrical engineer. Khrushchev's son Leonid was a Red air force pilot killed early in World War II, and his daughter Lena, 21, is now a law student at Moscow University. Mostly back home, Mrs. Khrushchev keeps house in their trim villa, frequently talks to groups of fellow veteran Communist women, since 1957 has turned out increasingly with her husband at Kremlin receptions, trying out her growing knowledge of English on foreigners with sentences like: "Travel is so educational...
...being unwanted in a broken home. He was a middle-aged Italian building-materials tycoon. Under his loving care, the fat duckling slimmed herself from 213 Ibs. into a glamorous creature, and became the most fabulously acclaimed opera singer of her time. The tokens of their happiness accumulated: a villa at Sirmione, two palaces in Verona, numerous art objects, jewelry, autos, motorboats and joint bank accounts. Their love, it seemed, thrived on money, and money thrived on love. And yet last week, after ten years of this golden idyl. Callas, 35, and Meneghini, 64, announced that they were "definitely...
...Charlie Byrd started strumming the strings of his guitar. With bass and drum accompaniment, he played his own composition, Spanish Guitar Blues, went on to a hot-swinging number called Yoti Took Advantage of Me, and then pulled a 180° switch-two solo Bach gavottes, sedate Frescobaldi variations, Villa-Lobos' rolling Prelude in E Minor. At 33, Byrd is that rarity, a musician so versatile that he qualifies as one of the world's top classical and jazz guitarists...