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Word: brambilla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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VISIT ITALY NOW, BEFORE THE ITALIANS DESTROY IT said one European travel poster. And Environmentalist Roberto Brambilla-who compiled the catalogue to a heartbreaking exhibit of photographs entitled "Italy-Too Late to Be Saved?", now on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City-put the point no less bitterly: "How can a nation's heritage be saved when her own people fail to recognize it as their own irreplaceable culture?" The overriding threat is not posed by iconoclastic maniacs like Toth but by eminently respectable town mayors, government planners and chairmen of land-development companies, whose greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Can Italy be Saved from Itself? | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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