Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time to Swallow. Most volatile issue in Ethiopia today, however, is not economics but relations with the neighboring Somalilands (TIME, Sept. 14). In the rise of a Pan-Somalia movement among the tribes of French, British and Italian Somaliland, the Ethiopians fancy they discern the bogeyman of British and Italian imperialism. This, plus Italian Somali-land's decision to demand a U.N.-supervised referendum in Somali grazing lands inside the borders of Ethiopia, constitute one of the chief sources of Haile Selassie's growing suspicion of the West. With an age-old fear of Moslem encirclement, the Ethiopians...
...daughter of an immigrant Greek druggist in New York, a fat ugly duckling with myopic eyes, who turned to singing to forget the feeling of being unwanted in a broken home. He was a middle-aged Italian building-materials tycoon. Under his loving care, the fat duckling slimmed herself from 213 Ibs. into a glamorous creature, and became the most fabulously acclaimed opera singer of her time. The tokens of their happiness accumulated: a villa at Sirmione, two palaces in Verona, numerous art objects, jewelry, autos, motorboats and joint bank accounts. Their love, it seemed, thrived on money, and money...
...snipers. Yet for a time it looked as if sheer weight of numbers might win out. and Author Fleming offers some interesting notes on the curious ways of people who expect to die-but hope to do so as ladies and gentlemen. In 110° heat, the Italian minister dressed for dinner each evening, and the wife of the U.S. minister disclosed that she expected to meet her Maker in her dressing gown "with a pink bow of ribbon at my throat...
...Hero's Diary. Author Fleming gives high marks for fighting ability to the Japanese, low to the French, except for one heroic action at Peitang Cathedral two miles north of the besieged legations. There, a thin line of 43 French and Italian bluejackets commanded by French Naval Lieutenant Paul Henry. 23. saved 3,400 refugees from death for eight weeks. Henry, the one authentic hero of the entire rebellion, died in the fighting, but left behind a fighting man's epitaph. Fleming recites the simple facts of his day-to-day log: "July 9: cartridges fired, 54; remaining...
...major event was the American premier of The Burnt Flower-Bed, written in 1952 by the late Italian dramatist Ugo Betti. Betti has been hailed as a greater playwright than Pirandello; he is certainly not that, but he does deserve a place among the most important modern writers for the theatre. This play deals with the problem of present-day nihilism and international political diplomacy. If it did not lapse periodically into propagandistic sermonizing, it would be a masterpiece...