Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue started to bubble quietly in 1951 when the Communists imported an Italian named Pacifico Montanari to reform the republic's schools. Montanari, 36, is an ardent apostle of Celestin Freinet, a freewheeling French innovator who claims non-Freinet schools teach by the medieval notion of rigid authority, argues for a classless classroom, with the teacher as merely a "master companion" who discusses with the pupils what and how they should study. Montanari installed the Freinet method in all of San Marino's elementary schools except one: Mother Veronica's St. Clare's Convent...
...being sent to you by an enterprise that is owned and operated for the benefit of Murray Kram." Murray did not bother with Irish-sounding names ("I don't think more than 40% or 50% of the people with Irish names are Catholics"), filled his sucker lists with Italian and Slavic names. In 1955 Murray Kram's Religious Distributing Co. grossed...
...multiplication of bureaucrats does not make it easier to get things done, but harder. To justify their jobs, bureaucrats proliferate their duties. One intrepid Italian insists that he had to fill out pounds of forms, in triplicate, for the files of nine different government offices, just to build a house. An Italian soldier, wounded in 1943 and certified in 1946 as 50% disabled, finally got on the pension rolls last month (with no retroactive pay). A businessman who filed a tax refund claim six years ago received the acknowledgment last week; he does not expect the refund for years. People...
...cast an occasional wistful eye at the old-world advantages-including fat government subsidies-of European opera houses. Despite the fact that, artistically speaking, there are really no big managerial plums after the Met (Milan's La Scala is not likely to hire a non-Italian boss), gossip that Vienna-born Manager Bing was about to leave has persistently cropped up. Last week the Met's directors announced that Bing has been signed to a new five-year contract, and that the Opera was reserving the option of signing him for two years after that...
Died. Gaetamo Salvemini, 83, Italian-born, U.S.-naturalized historian and author (What Is Culture?), longtime (50 years) professor of history (Florence, Pisa, Harvard), who fled Mussolini's Italy but continued to work his vitriolic pen against Fascism; after long illness; in Sorrento, Italy...