Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Compromise candidate. In case of a deadlock, the conclave may decide on an aged cardinal whose reign might be brief, postponing a decision (of the Italian cardinals, only three are under 70, of the whole college only...
...Italian v. non-Italian Pope. Under Pius XII's reign, for the first time in 500 years, non-Italian cardinals have come to outnumber the Italians, 37 to 18, but it is still considered probable that the next Pope will be Italian. The last non-Italian Pope was a Dutchman, Adrian...
...plot, with a little rearrangement, might easily serve for an Italian opera of the verismo school. It resolves around a second-rate traveling strong man and his strange, dull-witted assistant and concubine. A tightrope walker laughs at the strong man and is kind to his slave, and the strong man kills him. In the end the girl dies, and the strong man is left groveling in remorse on a deserted beach reminiscent of the one where he found...
ATOM-POWER LEAD in race to supply world market with reactors has gone to General Electric Co. In key competition, with seven atom experts called by World Bank to help judge, G.E. won contract to build 150,000-kw. boiling-water-type reactor for Italian government near Naples. G.E. will also build West Germany's first power reactor...
...middle-aged but still attractive heroine of this excellent novel by the wife of an Italian diplomat. "Mamma" Cossati is an intimidated, tradition-bound Roman housewife. She is intent on one thing: to maintain a perfect reputation for hard work and for saintly devotion to her family and her gentle husband, an underpaid bank official. Yet her problems cannot be dismissed as resulting merely from poverty and Old World attitudes about a woman's place. When she dreams guiltily of "leaving the dishes in the sink, the laundry unwashed, the beds unmade." or when she tries...