Word: calabria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italy, was originally set up for private families who could afford to pay the rents in this rather well-to-do part of the city. But just before construction of the block of apartments was completed, the Italian Communist Party moved 1500 homeless people from as far south as Calabria and Sicily into the building...
Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, who followed Berlinguer to the green hill towns of Calabria, is the son of a distinguished linguistics professor who migrated to the U.S. in the '30s and settled in New Jersey, where he taught for many years at Princeton University Consequently, his son got his education in that area (Lawrenceville, Princeton High School, Columbia University) and, after an apprenticeship in local newspapers, joined TIME-LIFE...
...down Italy last week, from the earthquake-shattered Alpine foothills of Friuli in the north to the fields of Calabria and Puglia in the south, already burning under the summer sun, an estimated 41 million voters were involved in a national election that may be the most crucial in the country's history. It was not only the Italians who were deeply concerned about the outcome. In the capitals of Western Europe, in Washington and Moscow, politicians and diplomats were anxiously waiting to learn what the voters will decide when they line up at the polls on June...
Paunchy, silver-haired Antonio Perelli is a lawyer and an organizer for the Christian Democratic Party in Cosenza, a sun-drenched river town of 120,000 in the southern Italian region of Calabria. Brisk, wiry Fausto Gelsomino, a printer by trade, is an official of Cosenza's Communist Party. Friendly enemies, the two men have known each other for years, and last week they were among the 30,000 people who gathered at the Piazza Fera for a Communist campaign rally at which the featured speaker was Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer. Shortly afterward, Perelli and Gelsomino...
...offered a vision with no resolution but faith: the stark picture of his most artistic film Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to Matthew). The movie is set in the poorest, most barren part of Southern Italy, and the parts are played by amateurs. Christ dies in Calabria...