Word: europeo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such denunciations did not deter wealthy Publisher Angelo Rizzoli, who is Italy's most unclassifiable political figure. Signer Rizzoli publishes Candido, a savagely satirical weekly edited by right-wing Novelist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camillo) Guareschi; Oggi, a slightly milder weekly with Monarchist politics; L'Europeo, which leans slightly left of center. To round matters out, Rizzoli is a close personal friend of Pietro Nenni, fellow-traveling leader of Italy's Communist-captured Socialists, often entertains Nenni at his villa and aboard his yacht, and contributes heavily to the Red Socialists' treasury...
Even before Wright's designs-which have yet to be approved by the Venice city council-had been seen by the public, the battle began. The idea of a Frank Lloyd Wright house on the Grand Canal was enough. The art critic of the Italian weekly L'Europeo announced that "even if Wright were ten thousand times greater than Michelangelo, it would be presumptuous of him to wish to build on the Grand Canal." Letter writers to the London Times denounced the Wright invasion as "a piece of inexcusable vandalism." Mrs. Marie Truxtun Beale, a wealthy U.S. socialite...
...loaded in a frightening manner. We must impose a remedy." Shrilled the Communist L'Unità: "The responsibility lies with the system in which we live, which transforms the school into a camp of ruthless competition for diplomas." But until school reform got under way L'Europeo had some advice for Italian school kids: "Away with guns and back to the slingshot...
Most critics ignored both De Chirico's sideshow and his rasping taunts, but the influential Italian weekly Europeo struck back: "De Chirico's [new paintings] are dry, trite, and the images toneless . . . It is not enough to wish in words for a renaissance...