Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pella was careful to point out that the Italian plan would not replace the Eisenhower Doctrine's standing offer of help against Communist aggression in the Middle East, but would supplement the doctrine's deterrence with "positive" peacetime aid. By including all O.E.E.C. countries-four of them (Austria, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland) not members of NATO-the plan would avoid identification with NATO or with the Baghdad Pact, both primarily military alliances and both widely disliked in the Middle East...
Without quite rejecting the Italian proposal outright, the State Department raised a couple of negative-thinking objections: 1) the Middle East would look upon the fund as an extension of NATO in spite of everything, 2) European countries would be repaying Marshall Plan loans in their own currencies, so the proposed fund would have no dollars; accordingly the Middle East countries would probably use the loans to buy goods and services from Europe, not from...
...range of chamber music from its charming origins in Renaissance Italy and England to Schoenberg's atonal lung-and-mind exercise, the Quintet for Wind Instruments, Op. 26 (Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; Columbia) and beyond. Eight of Boccherini's Quintets, sparkling with gaiety and glowing with warm Italian exuberance, have been polished up and lovingly presented on four LPs with two more to come (Quintette Boccherini; Angel). All of Haydn's 80-odd Quartets were planned for recording, and 47 were put on vinyl by the Haydn Society before it went down to noble defeat...
...Italian Chamber Music (soloists and Societas Musica Orchestra of Copenhagen; Vanguard). A delicious antipasto of Italian baroque, featuring Albinoni's melodies in the Trio Sonata in A, Opus I No. 3 for two violins, cello and virginal; Alessandro Scarlatti's serene Sonata in F; and a highly stylized love song for tenor accompanied by cello and harpsichord, by a 17th century Casanova named Alessandro Stradella. The power of his music was legendary. Once, so a story goes, assassins hired by a prominent Venetian (whose mistress Stradella had carried off) caught up with him in a church where...
Schulman tells the tale of a Nevada sheep rancher (Quinn), a rough, good-hearted Italian immigrant whose wife has died, and who goes back to Italy to fetch her sister (Magnani) to bed and board. The new wife soon finds out that he is still in love with the old, that he does not want her to be herself, but only to be "like Rosanna." Impossible. Rosanna was a yes woman; Gioia is one of those passionate natures that take time by the forelock and life by the throat. "You look like a slob!" her husband roars...