Word: arnaldo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian, his name means "golden apple," or more commonly, "tomato." But his cognomen, insists Arnaldo Pomodoro, has nothing to do with the fact that he has grown famous sculpting massive spheres cast in polished bronze (opposite). Rather, he is a kind of dissatisfied Aristotelian, seeking the true nature of form inside matter. "For me," he says, "the sphere is a perfect, almost magical form. Then you try to break the surface, go inside and give life to the form...
...there every day. Since typhoons carried away parts of the barrier that was supposed to contain the offal, it drifts out and forms a putrescent bilge that swills around the city. For a long time, not even her best friends would tell her. Then last week Senior City Councilor Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales took an olfactory tour of Hong Kong in a helicopter and pronounced that even from 300 feet up the place stank. The government promised that Gin Drinkers' Bay will be contained by a new wall next month and that the first of two big, modern incinerators...
...York Times, the word dynasty has a special meaning. Since Adolph Ochs took over the paper in 1896, it has stayed firmly in the family, handed down through three generations of descendants. And so last week, when Arnaldo Cortesi retired as the Times's Rome bureau chief, the paper could say goodbye with a special sadness. A member of the Cortesi family had represented the Times in Rome for 60 years...
...first was Arnaldo's mother, the former Isabelle Lauder Cochrane, who came to Rome from Boston, married Salvatore Cortesi, the Associated Press's man in Rome, and went to work for the Times. She was succeeded on her death in 1916 by a daughter, Elizabeth Arnaldo took over in 1921 and stayed 17 years-until Mussolini decreed that no Italian could work for the "foreign" press. The Times sent Cortesi to Geneva, Mexico City, and finally to Buenos Aires, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for his bold coverage of the repressive Perón regime...
...explanation. The regime said that the crowd outside the church was really composed of pro-Castro Cubans, incensed at the "fascist priests" and "hooligans" holed up inside with weapons. One priest had fired into the crowd outside, according to the official explanation, killing 17-year-old Arnaldo Socorro. Claiming Socorro as a martyr, the government trucked some 50,000 workers to his funeral. What the Communists did not explain was that Socorro was a militant member of Cuba's Young Catholic Workers...