Word: borgo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chaotic Sameness. He concedes that it is impossible to tear down all the jerry-built construction and start anew. But he hopes to "give the city back its face and character." The mayor, who still lives in the working-class quarter of Borgo San Paolo, remembers his youth: "My parents used to take me to the Piazza Sabotino for ice cream. They met their friends; I saw my schoolmates. There was a hedge row we called the Vialle dei Sederi ["Bottom Boulevard"] because of the great row of buttocks of people sitting there talking. Nowadays Piazza Sabotino looks like...
...Turin - the national average is 21.2% - provoked rare civil demonstrations. When the city raised bus fares 30%, union leaders ordered "bus representatives" to take over fare collections on commuter buses at the old rates, thereby forcing the increase down to a lower, more acceptable rate. In Borgo Vittorio, a working-class quarter, residents lined up at a tent pitched under a wall covered with anti- American slogans - NO TO ROCKEFELLER-CIA-AUSTERITY - to have electric bills reduced...
...Jesuits' Roman headquarters, a severe, palazzo-ike building on Borgo Santo Spirito, a stone's throw from St. Peter's, Arrupe still emulates Japanese ways. In the tiny private chapel off his room, he prays, sitting Zen-style on a cushion, each morning and evening that he is there. Often he is not. Though previous Jesuit generals stayed close to Rome, Arrupe has logged 200,000 miles on more than 30 trips. Says an aide: "His face lights up when he's on the road...