Word: iloveyou
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finest story in the book is Moravia's The Unfortunate Lover, about a catty mistress who plays a cruel game of Iloveyou, I-love-you-not with her mouselike lover. The best war story is Indro Montanelli's O. Henry-like His Excellency. A monocled, tight-corseted army corps commander named Delia Rovere is clapped into a Milan prison by the Germans in the spring of 1944. He lets his junior fellow officers know that Italy expects them to face the firing squad with courage: "An officer is at all times merely on temporary duty...