Word: barzini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every ounce of significance from his travels by boning up on the history and folklore of the place he is visiting. For a sojourn in Italy this summer, a Manhattan couple came armed with H. V. Morton's A Traveller in Rome and A Traveller in Italy, Luigi Barzini's The Italians, and a clutch of Moravia novels. Another species of Experience Maximizer is represented by Washington's Laughlin Phillips, a former State Department officer, who during shore vacations in Maryland cracks nothing but shellfish and books on shellfish...
...Italians, Barzini...
NONFICTION 1. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (2) 2. Markings, Hammarskjold (1) 3. The Founding Father, Whalen (5) 4. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII (3) 5. Queen Victoria, Longford (4) 6. The Italians, Barzini (7) 7. How to Be a Jewish Mother, Greenburg (6) 8. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre 9. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (9) 10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...
...Italians, Barzini...
Adopting the Habsburgs. Of course, many other nations suffer from crawling bureaucracy, but Italy's problem is on the scale of Michelangelo's David or the triumphal march in Aïda. Barzini traces its origins back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when together with so many other of Italian society's "baroque" characteristics, it was imported by Italy's hated Spanish Habsburg rulers, and then adopted and glorified by the natives. Nowadays most Italians consider the archvillains to be the bureaucrats themselves. They have come to be known as i burosauri, a name derived...