Word: alessandro
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...Italian Communist Party to its finest electoral hour: a first-place finish, ahead of the rival Christian Democrats in the voting for the European Parliament. Last week, as the party elders met to elect Berlinguer's successor as Secretary-General, they apparently saw wisdom in continuity: they chose Alessandro Natta, 66, a longtime Berlinguer loyalist...
Legally, John Paul can do nothing. Only Italian President Alessandro Pertini can order Agca's release, but the Italian government observes a strict policy of not negotiating with kidnapers. The motives remain as mysterious as the method. The kidnapers have not demanded money, nor have they spiced their messages with ideological rantings or political rationales. Instead, they have identified themselves only as "people who are interested in Agca's liberation." Some Romans speculate that they may be agents from Bulgaria or even the Soviet Union, the countries Agca has implicated in the papal assassination attempt. The kidnapers...
Other Harvard Fellowship recipients included Dr. Daniel Bell, Ford Professor of Social Sciences; Barry C. Mazur, Petachek Professor of Mathematics; Alessandro Pizzorno, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies: Simson M. Schama, professor of History: Dr. Jerry Sebag, clinical fellow in Opthamology at the Medical School; Steven M. Shavell, professor of Law and Economics: Dr. Susan R. Suleiman, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; and Dr. James D. Wilkinson '65, associate professor of History...
...Venice to expand his painting skills. After only two years, when he had absorbed all the schooling in color that Titian and Tintoretto could give him, he moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During the next seven years, he prayerfully studied the mannerist distortion of the human figure instigated by Michelangelo. Then for reasons still unknown, El Greco decided to try his luck in Spain, where a friend's father was able to get him commissions for Toledo's chapels...
Born in 1883 in the Romagna, a region south of Venice, Mussolini was a hereditary rebel; both his father and his grandfather had been imprisoned for their political beliefs. Papa Alessandro, a blacksmith with intellectual aspirations, was one of the earliest proclaimed socialists in Italy. Young Benito was a loner with what would now be called sociopathic tendencies, a street fighter who looked on violence as the natural way to get what he wanted. Yet he was unquestionably intelligent. He read extensively in German, French and English and even wrote a novella in the style of Edgar Allan...