Word: arcangelo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young English architect, signs up for a 13-month job in Australia and packs Celia and the kids off to Forte dei Marmi on the Italian Riviera. There, at the beginning of a sun-soaked Italian summer, she meets the aging principessa and the principessa's current lover, Arcangelo, though Celia is too innocent to recognize him as such. She is quicker to sense the unsettling effects of the Italians upon her tidy and hitherto strait-laced life. She tries to tell the children's nanny about it: "They flourish somehow, they don't mind so much...
...basic dilemma remains unresolved, and in this first novel. Briton Isabel Quigly maintains it for so long that the plot caves in on her characters. With Neddy's return only days away, Celia is belatedly asking her lover: "What do people do, Arcangelo, in a situation like ours? What do they do? ... Catholics, I mean." The distinct suggestion is that the best the star-crossed lovers can hope for is some sort of intercontinental ménage-á-trois. Author Quigly's story ranges from romantic intensity to limp sentimentality but in her evocation of the sensuousness...
Corelli: The Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 (string orchestra conducted by Dean Eckertsen; Vox, 3 LPs). A rich-voiced tribute to Italian Composer Arcangelo Corelli on the 300th anniversary of his birth. The symphony of its day, the concerto grosso contrasted a massed orchestra with a smaller group of solo instruments-here beautifully played by Violinists Daniel Guilet, Edwin Bachmann and Cellist Frank Miller. The music is vigorous and full of spirited contrasts...
...Ever since then, Severino's intricate pen & ink studies of such subjects as lizards, snails, fish, insects, flowers, vegetables and bike races have kept right on winning prizes in juvenile art shows at home and abroad. Severino's classmates at the village grammar school in Sant' Arcangelo soon caught the fever, formed a hard-painting little group known as "the School of Severino." Paramount Films did a movie short about the youthful artists. In last year's ECA International Child Art Competition (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951), several of the top prizes in Italy went to adherents...