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the most reactionary discourses

[...] I was also invited into the villas of the upper class; in fact the most luxurious and aristocratic house that I have been in in this country was certainly here (built a few years ago but all in plantation style and all its accessories authentic), visiting a woman for whom I had a letter of in…

—p.109 Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings American Diary 1959–1960 (16) by Italo Calvino
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going from one burlesque joint to another

[...] The fact is that the blacks have their own Mardi Gras, in their own neighbourhoods, and nobody is willing to take me there because of the danger that a large number of drunk blacks represents; however, from what I hear, there are often white tourists who organize expeditions to the black area…

—p.108 American Diary 1959–1960 (16) by Italo Calvino
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could be undermined by further meetings with them

[...] in these few days I have not been able to approach any scientists, something that I regret but also perhaps it’s better that way because from the few and far between glimpses I have had I have formed the idea that scientists are the only group which can lead to something new in America, becau…

—p.103 American Diary 1959–1960 (16) by Italo Calvino
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could be undermined by further meetings with them

[...] in these few days I have not been able to approach any scientists, something that I regret but also perhaps it’s better that way because from the few and far between glimpses I have had I have formed the idea that scientists are the only group which can lead to something new in America, becau…

—p.103 American Diary 1959–1960 (16) by Italo Calvino
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Las Vegas has not been a disappointment topic/americana

[...] I have to say that Las Vegas has not been a disappointment: it is all just as you have read about so many times, with wedding chapels in the middle of the gambling-dens and the farce theatres with their advertisements for the quickest marriages (this is even more brazen than I had imagined: t…

—p.96 American Diary 1959–1960 (16) by Italo Calvino