Word: apertura
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...Italians, fortunately, are resistant to culinary trends. After all, pasta is pasta is pasta. Nevertheless, ever since the tales of Marco Polo's bringing back ice cream and noodles from the Far East, Italy has been receptive to worthy new dishes and techniques. This apertura is explored in The New Italian Cooking (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $15) by Margaret and G. Franco Romagnoli, who in two previous books have done a commendable job of explicating la cucina italiana for Americans. Their new book largely concerns itself with the adaptation of traditional recipes to contemporary methods and lifestyles: using an electric...
...mournful-looking man with an unctuous public style, Arias himself has had a sometimes troubled relationship with the Bunker. As Franco's last Premier, Arias launched a policy of apertura (opening) that infuriated rightists, even though it involved such modest gestures as allowing free elections in some municipalities and the formation of certain limited political "associations." Nonetheless, he was imposed on the King by the rightists after Franco's death as the only possible compromise choice for Premier...
...1950s, Nenni himself finally draws away from the Communists. He helps prepare the way for the famous apertura a sinistra, the Christian Democrats' opening to the left in which, by 1963, they once more admit the Socialists into the government...
Instant Replay. The latest crisis is rooted in the 1963 decision by the Italian Socialist party to break its postwar alliance with the Communists and join the Christian Democrats in a centerleft coalition, the much-discussed apertura a sinistra, or opening to the left. In the Socialists' opinion, the opening never came, because the government proved to be more center than left. The Socialists complained that the Christian Democrats never delivered on promised economic and social reforms. As a result, in May's general election, the Socialists lost one-quarter of their votes to the extreme left...
...benign image, these parties are understandably anxious to dissociate themselves from this aspect of Moscow's policy. Italian Communist Chief Luigi Longo. whose party is Europe's largest, flatly declared that the Communist movement no longer has "centralized direction." In his new action program, Longo proposed an apertura a destra-an opening to the right-in which the Italian Communists would join with other dissident groups in Italy to form a sort of united protest front...