Word: gioia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes back to Italy to fetch her sister (Magnani) to bed and board. The new wife soon finds out that he is still in love with the old, that he does not want her to be herself, but only to be "like Rosanna." Impossible. Rosanna was a yes woman; Gioia is one of those passionate natures that take time by the forelock and life by the throat. "You look like a slob!" her husband roars. "Why don' you be like Rosanna?" And Gioia tells him fiercely...
Things come to a head at a party. Falling down drunk, the husband tries to make up to Gioia by proposing a toast which he begins with a disastrous slip of the tongue: "To my wife Rosanna!" Gioia locks him out of their room. "Go sleep with the dead!" she rages. He takes a trip. Desperate to be loved, and loved for what she is, she gives herself to her husband's adopted son (Anthony Franciosa...
...this week, be spudless. In Baldwin County, Ala., so many trucks were lined up to grab up the first of the spring crop that the police had to be called out. For the spaghetti and macaroni trade, the shortage was the best news in years. Buffalo's Gioia Macaroni Co. reported its sales had doubled in the past three weeks...
...that business of the new "game" in Naples inspires me with naught but shame and disgust that one of the Church's servants should so distort the spirit of the Holy Year (any year, for that matter) with so grotesque an exhibition of bigotry . . . Jesuit Inventor Sergio de Gioia does little, if anything, to enhance his Roman collar. I think he disgraces it. WILLIAM FAHEY Seminary of Philosophy Montreal, Canada...
...would like to suggest a change in the rules for the new game invented by Father de Gioia. As a Lutheran, it seems to me that it would be more logical to have the player who stops on square 49 discontinue his trip to the "Holy Father" . . . Every Protestant knows that Christ lives in the heart of the believer and not in the Vatican. DOROTHY M. COHEA Waterloo, Iowa...