Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blow, so to speak, with the recent publication of excerpts from a 400-page study titled Report on the Sexual Behavior of Italians, or, as it was quickly dubbed, "The Italian Kinsey Report." The Italian male emerges from the study as a cursory, inept lover, crippled by a Don Giovanni complex that propels him endlessly toward the conquest of women...
President Giovanni Leone was forced to call the election a year ahead of schedule-the statutory term for a Parliament is five years -since the country's imperfect governmental system had once again worked imperfectly. The latest patchwork Christian Democratic government, headed by Premier Aldo Moro, finally collapsed last month after the Socialist Party withdrew its necessary support. Leone had no choice but to let the voters make a fresh choice, under a parliamentary system that in 30 years has produced nearly 40 revolving-door governments...
...Uncle Ettorino's library; it was there that, among other things, he discovered Karl Marx. His family also had a radical tradition; the Berlinguers, like many other Sardinian landowners, had been squeezed by industrialization and became ardent progressives as a result. Continuing the tradition, Enrico and Younger Brother Giovanni, now 51 and a Communist Deputy, haunted a Sassari cafe favored by old-line Communist and Socialist workers, playing an Italian version of poker called "Il Ramino" with them and arguing politics. Says one of the cafe habitues proudly: "If today he has lucid ideas, it's because...
...party's shifting and sometimes unstable factional alliances have led to the revolving-door premierships that have long plagued the country. Moro has been Premier five times, Mariano Rumor five times, and current President Giovanni Leone twice...
...sort of closed party shop, stuffing the membership rolls with cronies-or, as party reformers themselves say, even the names of dead people, for whom they pay membership dues. The result has been an entrenched elite, inured to change and the claims to power of young, reformist members. Complains Giovanni Prandini, 36, a Christian Democratic Deputy from Brescia: "The whole party is designed and built for the indefinite preservation of power, not its passage. It is organized in a strict oligarchy that blocks the young, either by compromising or suffocating them...