Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small boy carefully studied the figure of Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Basis Lecturer on the History of Italian, Civilization, as the boarded scholar walked to lunch at the Faculty Club absorbed in academic contemplation...
...second story were two more large rooms, one the library, and the other a lecture hall containing the College's "philosophical apparatus," which included such scientific instruments as orreries, telescopes and stuffed birds. In the cupola on the roof was the College bell, brought over from an Italian convent...
...event last week so affected history's turbulent stream that British miners and Italian bakers, Irish shamrock growers and Russian scientists might never live quite the same lives again. As one Briton put it: "We went to sleep in one world and woke up ... in another...
Clarence & the Qualunquists. Most Italians admired the U.S., but one of its best-loved characters, Clarence Day Sr., incited them to condescending contempt. Life with Father, declared Italian critics, was "superficial, infantile, naive . . . adequate for high-school children." First...
...Italian program: Cherubini's only symphony, Catalani's prelude from La Wally, Respighi's Fountains of Rome. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...