Word: avellino
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...years ago, an Italian in an Irish sea. The lower Greenwich Village neighborhood of his birth was about 95% Irish, about 5% Italian. (Today, the ratio in that neighborhood is almost precisely reversed.) His father, Gerard De Sapio, came to the U.S. at the age of ten from Avellino, some 30 miles inland from Naples. Recalls Gerard: "We were on a flat-bottomed scow, maybe like the Staten Island ferry, if you know what I mean, but I thought it was the greatest ship in the world. I used to go up on the deck and look...
...Avellino last week, the 35th and latest in Marzotto's chain of "Jolly Hotels" opened its doors. Like the others, Avellino's three-story, 41-room hotel is designed for "the masses of small tourists with small means but a natural desire for comfort, cleanliness and amusement. There are few carpets, but plenty of bathrooms, few chandeliers but ice water in every room." Rates on tourist floors average $2 a night, and for $6 a tourist can get board and lodging, including use of a swimming pool. To 58-year-old Tourist Marzotto, one of Italy...
...York had brought to bear a great deal of political savvy, a great ability to personify democracy to Italians who had never seen it in action. This paragon is Lieut. Colonel Charles Poletti, ex-Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York, Regional Commissioner for Naples, Salerno, Benevento and Avellino...
Most distasteful to Italy's Cupid was a grave irregularity last week at Avellino. Rosino Consolazio, 19, agreed with her fiance Montalberti Filcorate, 23, to end their engagement in a duel. On the field of honor she shot him through the head, received a flesh wound in the cheek...
...problem lay in trying to persuade inhabitants to return to their homesites. Not only the fresh and fearful recollection of over 2,000 killed and twice as many injured, but the fact that the torn earth still quivered ominously from time to time made the villagers of Melfi, Puglia, Avellino, Ariano skeptical about going home prematurely...