Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really did it all. On "Radio Day" last week, Communications Industry Minister Gennady Vasilievich Alexenko patiently repeated that the man who first developed radio (in the year 1895) was Alexander Popov of St. Petersburg. (Popov had thought up radar, too.) And what of the world's acclaim for Italian Inventor Guglielmo Marconi? Said Moscow: "Sham laurels...
Bedroom Eyes. At 32, Edward George Arcaro looks like a cross between a sleepy Mexican vaquero and Cyrano de Bergerac. He is Italian by descent, Ohioan by birth. His face is thin and olive-complexioned, falling away on all sides from his celebrated nose. (Pretty, blonde Mrs. Arcaro sees beyond the end of his nose, thinks the most striking thing about his face are his "big, brown bedroom eyes...
...them is the Princess Casamassima, who no longer lives with the Italian prince she married. Taking her do-gooding more seriously than her fellow aristocrats, she moves to a shabby little London house, gives the prince's money away to the poor and even offers to assassinate a duke for the anarchists. But not before she has given Hyacinth a taste of princely living and watched him fall in love with her. Says the princess: "I'm convinced that we're living in a fool's paradise, that the ground's heaving under our feet...
Fogg Museum is presenting a series of three public lectures next week in conjunction with exhibitions of the Museum class. Edward Williamson, assistant professor of Italian Literature at Johns Hopkins University, opens the series today with an illustrated lecture on "The Mask of Venice," followed by a talk on "Poussin and the Elegiac Tradition," by Erwin Panofsky, Norton Professor of Poetry...
...Director, 34-year-old specialist in the history of art and architecture, is the author of "Mill and Mansion," a study of architecture and society in Lowell, and has contributed to periodical literature on Italian architeure of the sixteenth century...