Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Umberto Terracini, president of Italy's Assembly, is affectionately known to his fellow Italian Communists as "The Brain." Last week The Brain ached...
Next day, top Communist Palmiro Togliatti gave Communist Terracini a public dressing-down. The Italian Communist Party announced officially that Terracini's interview "expresses the false and dangerous tendency of putting on the same plane imperialist aggressors, who are fomenting war and intervening in the internal life of peoples . . . and states which, like the Soviet Union, necessarily follow a policy of defense of peace and never dream of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. . . . Opinions of the kind expressed by Comrade Terracini can only serve to disorient the working masses in a battle which they must wage...
...Atlantic's ivy-covered Back Bay brownstone home on Arlington Street, opposite the Public Garden, Weeks labors at a furious pace. He does much of his work in a Windsor chair with his lap full of manuscripts, shortens interviews by seating visitors in an uncomfortable straight-backed Italian chair...
Scratch a football coach, and you generally find a man who fancies himself an amateur psychologist. Among Crisler's homemade convictions is the belief that a coach's approach to his players should vary with their national origins. Italian boys, he says, need encouragement because they are lethargic in action. Scandinavians are the hardest to stir up ("I begin needling them on Tuesday"). He plasters the locker-room wall with cautionary signs. This season the warnings are directed against overconfidence. Says one: "There are no savings deposits in football. It's what you do in each game...
Uncle Tom's Cabin. The date was Feb. 13, but their luck was in. The first person they saw was an Italian peasant on a bicycle, a member of the Partisans, who led them to a house where they got a meal of noodles and pig's liver, met the tailgunner (picked up by another member of the local underground) and experienced their first bombing: some P-47s dive-bombed a nearby bridge. As days went by, Chappuis & Co. were moved from house to house, and village to village, towards the Swiss frontier. Once they walked right past...