Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fulbright Scholarships have been awarded to three Radcliffe students: Wilda M. Marraffino, to study Modern Italian History in Rome; Laura Maslow to study French History and Literature at Marseilles; and Mrs. Renee E. Watkins to study History in Florence...
Last month Premier Eyskens was abruptly summoned to the palace and told that Leopold's youngest son in the royal line, Albert, 25, was going to marry Paola Ruffo di Calabria, 21, one of the prettiest of a clutch of pretty Italian princesses. Everybody thought the girl a catch, but because royal marriages are affairs of state demanding government deliberation and approval, the Cabinet again felt itself insulted, ignored and affronted. Three days later, Pope John XXIII announced in Rome that he would perform the marriage himself at the Vatican, and let it be understood that there would...
Bombs & Bacilli. It was in 1941 that Orano contracted the disease that made him a pariah. Italian troops and officials in Somaliland had run from the British, but Orano persisted in taking a boatload of supplies to hungry leprosy victims in a remote colony. Caught in an air attack along the way. he suffered some 50 superficial wounds from bomb fragments. Ashore, he helped bandage wounded leprosy patients, and the disease-causing Hansen's bacilli entered his own wounds...
...promises of special consideration in the Lazzaretto Spallanzani. (Despite intensive treatment in France with sulfone drugs, the once powerful Orano was by this time gnarled and weakened, his handsome face disfigured, his blue eyes clouded.) But the promises were soon forgotten. Roman bureaucrats enforced the letter of antiquated Italian law. They let the faithful Giulia live with him in an isolated cottage (he is the only leprosy victim in Spallanzani), forced her to take full care of him, gave him little treatment. Once he broke out to make a placarded public protest-in vain. Again his "acquaintance are verily estranged...
...Gnoli broke his pencils and joined an Italian road company as a "no-talent" actor. Spear carrying eventually led to a promising career in theater design. But art drew him back to Rome, where he conceived the best pictures in last week's show-austere descriptions in ink of the city's dark and quiet corners: a hand laundry where only the linen sparkles, an empty tavern where the chairs seem to converse...