Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mark the horrible . . . photograph of me with the smart caption: "Anticipation!" You might better have used that caption on a mass photograph of the starving Italian children, to whom I have turned over the entire huge bulk of my Italian royalties. Or on a group of flood-wrecked British farmers, to whom I gave a great portion of my Brit ish royalties, or on a photograph of French blind veterans, who are happier today for my contribution. Or on many sections of the American unfortunate, to whom I give over 20% of my gross earnings as a writer every year...
...season Broadway productions are usually of the "Blossom Time" or "light summer fare" school. This year's June audiences, though, are being given a preview of what may turn out to be a musical revolution that has been brewing in New York for decades. Gian-Carlo Menotti, young Italian-born American composer, has written an opera, and unlike most of his fellow composers, he has had the right combination of skill and luck to get it produced-at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre along with his curtain-raiser, "The Telephone...
Instead, Greening landed in the Italian P.W. camp at Chieti, and there learned that art sometimes pays. For Greening it paid a pack of cigarets or a can of jam per portrait of his fellow prisoners. "On lean days," Greening remembers, "my roommates and I would eat jam until we were sick. Sometimes when the food ran out all over we'd give the jam back to the guys it came from." Greening also staged an art show in an unused latrine, which was held over "by popular demand...
...shuffled slowly through the Yard. He was drearily humming the tune whose words went ". . . sleeping in the noonday sun." It seemed the whole city of Cambridge was sleeping, like some Italian village. The rush and stir of exams, Commencement, and Reunion had passed. Tercentenary Theater had returned to its unknown lair from which it would not emerge until next June; the Yard was shady, quiet, and deserted. Ivy-covered Widener frowned down on ivy-covered Emerson and ivy-covered Sever. Vag was sorry that he had stayed in Cambridge. Better to have gone almost anywhere--New York, Maine...
...pavement. But life went on in the Gallería. In August 1944, it was the unofficial heart of Naples. It was a living and subdividing cell of vermouth, Allied soldiery and the Italian people...