Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard University associate professor is writing plays. "The Agamemnon" was printed in 1952 in "Botteghe Oscure," a magazine run by an Italian nobleman who lives on a "street of dark shops." Then the play was published in book form, and it will be produced in New York in the fall...
...rank bunch of 100 U.S. fellow travelers passed by-followed closely by six non-Communist Americans who, as they entered Heroes Square, broke out signs reading "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet" and "We're Against Soviet Colonialism." The crowd gave the half dozen a tremendous ovation before Austrian and Italian Communists swarmed in and knocked them out of line. All in all, it was unlikely that the Communists would soon try to stage another youth festival beyond their own fences...
Vinigi Grottanelli, Italian anthropologist, and Maria Grendi, of Florence's II Ponte, spoke on "Perspective on Italy," in the second half of the program...
...major success of the evening is due to a dynamic and powerful performance by Robert J. Lurtsema as Eddie Carbonne, the Italian longshoreman. When Eddie allows two of his wife's immigrant cousins who have entered the country illegally to stay in his home until they get settled, the younger cousin, Rudolpho, falls in love with Eddie's niece, Catherine, whom he has raised with over-protective care. When Rudolpho, who enjoys singing, sewing, and cooking, as well as working on the piers, is accused by Eddie of being a homosexual seeking to marry only for his citizenship papers...
...Miller has introduced a pseudo-Greek chorus in the character of Alfieri, the neighborhood lawyer who comments on and occasionally participates in the action. This part is intelligently and movingly played by Dean Gitter, though one might wish he had chosen either to perfect or to ignore the Italian accent. His last soliloquoy was particularly effective, I felt...