Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks, Joyce and Paula worked evenings, transforming an old second-hand furniture store into a coffee house. The secrets of coffee brewing were learned from an Italian who had lived in Arabia. According to Paula, he is "a poet, artist, and recluse, who lives in Boston...
...second scheduled performance of Norma, the Rome Opera brought in hefty, promising Italian Soprano Anita Cerquetti. "She sang like a peaceful cow," said one critic, but she won a tumultuous ovation. Meanwhile the Opera management withheld Soprano Callas' fee (rumored close to $2,000). The week's last word belonged to a maid at the Quirinale, who said: "She cannot have lost her voice. I heard her screaming at the waiter...
...religion in the churches, peace for the dead." Meanwhile, throughout Red Emilia, farmers and workers, priests and parishioners were peering through weed-grown cemeteries to see what other instances of mortuary Marxism they could find. Most notable example, in addition to dozens of hammers and sickles: the well-known Italian version of the revolutionary slogan-"Push on, 0 people, push on to Redemption Day"-painted on a headstone...
...elegance and authority that his Palladian style became one of the longest-lasting and most widely accepted personal idioms in the history of architecture. In an effort to preserve Pal-ladio's work (many of his most beautiful structures were made of common brick and perishable stucco), the Italian government late last year appropriated more than $3,000,000. Highest priority items for the rehabilitation program are the most delightful of all Palladio's creations-the villas he designed along the Brenta Canal and in the gently undulating plain of the Veneto region...
...fate and throws it into the lap of chance. It moves the locale from the Left Bank of the Seine to the wrong side of the Rhone, where an impassioned Lyonnaise beauty (Simone Signoret), bored with an inadequate husband, meets "un homme, un vrai" in the form of an Italian truck driver (Raf Vallone). The lovers do not plot the husband's death, but they kill him anyway. After that, accidents keep following each other as if in mockery of Zola's thesis that the punishment must sprout from the seed of the crime...