Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard is no place to learn a foreign language." With this terse statement, a teaching fellow in an elementary Italian class here expressed a view which has become prevalent among faculty and student alike at Harvard. But the statement of this teaching fellow might also be expanded to read, "A college is no place to learn a foreign language...
...teaching of elementary languages, Harvard is following and not leading." A recent survey by the Chicago Tribune would seem to back Frohock's statement. Whereas Harvard was chosen as the top college in the country, seven out of its 28 major fields were labelled as "undistinguished." French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Linguistics were five of these...
...come. Most significant result of the new appointments will be to strengthen the administrative machinery of the church-the Curia-which Pius XII, no man to delegate wide authority, had neglected during the last few years. The Curia now has 24 instead of 13 cardinals, and the overall Italian representation in the College of Cardinals is now up from 17 to 29-not, Vaticaners feel, with a view to restoring the traditional Italian majority, but to revive Italian pride in the "senate of the church." Noted Corriere Delia Sera: "Even though the number of non-Italians is still preponderant...
...adventurous musical reading of Tennessee Williams' curdled little tale about a New Orleans lady of reduced circumstances who supports herself and her granddaughter, illegitimately descended from Lord Byron, by displaying a love letter she received from Byron in the "gold and azure days'" of their love affair. Italian Composer Banfield's score offers some green and willowy moments of vocal beauty, but its lush-styled orchestration is finally too heavy for a Williams fancy as languid as summer, as wispy as smoke...
Babies bawled, while their parents attacked box lunches. A little boy fell into an artificial lake and sputtered up, screaming. A little girl got a hula-hoop lesson from her dad. Linda Christian, Ty's exwife, who had put on such a spectacular performance at the Italian burial of her good friend. Auto Racer Alfonso de Portago, made Hollywood headlines by staying away from the funeral at Debbie's request. If the crowd had any disappointment, it was that only one woman fainted...