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...idea behind Arcosanti is beguilingly simple: since cities shape society, they should be constructed in ways that accelerate human development. "We can't go back to nature," says Paolo Soleri, 61, the Italian-born architect who is Arcosanti's prime mover and chief guru, by way of exhorting the band of vagrants, zealots and children of the '60s who have followed him into the desert. The city, Soleri argues, is a necessary tool for nudging the human spirit toward the "omega point," a state of highly evolved consciousness. Humanity's enemy is urban sprawl. The Soleri...
...veteran foreign correspondent himself, Bonfante found his empathy for diplomats growing stronger as he wrote the story. The Italian-born son of a distinguished Princeton University linguistics professor, Bonfante briefly considered a diplomatic career before graduating from Columbia College but decided instead to enter Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. After seven years on foreign assignment for TIME he has become closely acquainted with the symbiotic arrangements that often develop between correspondents and foreign service officers. "They both must report on what is going on, and they invariably turn to each other for help," says Bonfante, whose last foreign...
...When Ted Kennedy first ran for the Senate in 1962, Italian-born Vinnie DeRienzo, now 56, eagerly handed out campaign leaflets at the clothing factory in East Boston where he has been a pattern cutter for 18 years. DeRienzo was delighted when the Senator announced that he would seek the presidency. Said he: "I wasn't happy with Carter. He's let inflation get the best of us. And the more it costs me, the more I have to work." To cut energy costs, DeRienzo and his wife Mary have turned down the thermostat at their ranch-style...
...book, rarely the strong point of an opera, invariably suffers most. The plot line of The Most Happy Fella is the kind of story that babies tell to babies. An elderly Italian-born Napa Valley grape grower named Tony (Giorgio Tozzi) is smitten with instant love for Rosabella (Sharon Daniels), a young San Francisco waitress. Tony woos and wins her by mail, aided by the deceptive use of a photograph of his strappingly virile farm manager, Joe (Richard Muenz...
DIED. Harry Bertoia, 63, Italian-born sculptor and furniture designer; of a pulmonary hemorrhage; in Barto, Pa. Bertoia first achieved recognition in 1952 when he unveiled his now classic chair: an upholstered, diamond-shaped wire shell sus pended in a steel cradle. He was later noted for welding metal rods and plates into dandelion-like bursts and honeycombed wall screens, and for creating his "sounding sculptures," clusters of wires and bars that turned sonorous when brushed by hand or wind...