Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officer of the glorious Italian Cavalry, I've something to say about your article, "Mexico's Five Horsemen" [TIME...
Mexicans are very clever horsemen, and we saw them last spring in Rome and in the Olympics - the best cavalrymen in the world, perhaps, by now. But "the big secret of Mexican riding" isn't a Mexican secret at all: it is an Italian...
...Italians (at the Italian School of Cavalry in Pinerolo) first thought that a horse's movements must be controlled almost entirely through the rider's legs, and not through his hands. Federico Caprilli, an Italian officer of cavalry, was, in the 19th Century, the founder of a new system of riding called equitazione naturale, of which the secret mentioned above is a canon...
...native Italy, Rospigliosi is the kind of correspondent TIME likes to have to round out any well-organized news bureau. His father was Italian, his mother American; he was educated in Florence and was graduated from Cambridge University in 1929. He speaks Italian, German, French and English fluently, and knows Italy like the back of his hand. He was working for International News Service in Rome when America went to war, and was promptly arrested by the police and interned as an "antinational" at Perugia. Later, he escaped, spent a winter in the hills outside Rome, made it through...
...tape (e.g., it took five months to get a much-needed new car uncrated and "naturalized"), 2) the deplorable telephone service ("It is better to walk to your party than try to phone him"), 3) Rome's three-hour afternoon siestas, 4) the departmentalization of Italian news...