Word: cassino
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...other side." Italian "treachery" notwithstanding, he claims and probably deserves credit for sparing such culturally rich towns as Orvieto, Perugia, Urbino, Siena, Padua, Ravenna and Venice from military destruction. He admits "the destruction of the wonderful [Florentine] bridges across the Arno." As for the famed monastery of Monte Cassino, Kesselring stoutly denies that the German armies ever put it to military...
...began, he joined the South African Air Force, but soon "lost his temper" and was put under arrest. He escaped by pole-vaulting the prison stockade, hopped a train to Durban and enlisted in the artillery under a fake name. Demobilized in 1945, a veteran of Anzio and Cassino, he set about the more serious business of fighting crocodiles...
...descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist's eye, the cities pulsate with prosperity. Next to the weathered greys, faded beiges and crumbling burnt oranges of past glories stand refurbished or new buildings glinting with fresh paint, new chrome and stucco. Cassino has risen from the bombers' rubble, a gleaming, modern town, with its famed monastery restored. In Eboli, where Christ stopped (in Carlo Levi's novel), six spanking new apartment houses were completed in the past few months...
...major interest has been investigating Classical culture, and its influence in the Middle Ages. He has studied the role of the Benedictine monasteries in preserving the Classical heritage, and was responsible for re-discovering the "Atina papers" of a twelfth century librarian at Monte Cassino...
Eight Iron Men (Stanley Kramer; Columbia) is a war film without Hollywood heroics. It tells the story of a squad of eight battle-weary infantrymen holed up for 17 days in a dreary Italian "shooting gallery" near Cassino, where they engage mostly in griping, bickering and bantering about the war. But when one of the G.I.s is pinned down in a shellhole by enemy fire during a reconnaissance patrol, boredom gives way to an almost mystical feeling of brotherhood. Disobeying orders, the squad goes about rescuing the trapped man (it turns out, ironically, that he had only sprained his ankle...