Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each other only on holidays. They do not look or act alike. Franco is a shy honor student, and Carlos Alberto is a husky athlete. Maria Fernanda is quiet, Maria Esther a chatterbox, and Maria Cristina somewhere in between. But they feel their special ties. The father, an Italian immigrant who got rich with textile mills and vegetable-oil factories, says the five are a kind of "Mafia," with their own secret jokes and fierce loyalty. The children chatter in Spanish among themselves, speak Italian to their family and English in school...
...least possible that within the outer froth of religiosity there is an inner core of authentic religion hardened by the firmness of Divine Grace ... If intelligent Catholics stand apart from it in disdain, they may run the risk of putting themselves in the same class as those fastidious Italian noblemen who wondered how any good could possibly come from the Poor Man of Assisi and his ragamuffin band of followers...
Stephen Marshall Cohen, this year's Lowell Lecturer in Boston, was appointed to an assistant professorship in Philosophy, and John Charles Nelson, an instructor in Italian here since 1957, has been made an assistant professor...
...everywhere is concern, not panic. Economies are generally sound, employment high and currency strong. To Dr. Erhard, the engineer of the German production miracle, a slowdown is not without advantages for his highly flexible economy, for rising costs were beginning to threaten Germany's competitive position. And one Italian economist dismisses his own country's recession as no more than "a slowdown in the speedup...
...should have spent a dozen years as a second-string Hollywood leading man. Bon of a French Huguenot and Irish line, Robert was two years old when his parents moved from Newton Highlands, Mass, to the going-to-seed Lincoln Heights section of Los Angeles. He grew up, among Italian and Mexican families, in a neighborhood dotted with rundown homes. But the Meserveys were a close-knit unit. Bob's mother fed her family on music, and as a small boy Bob learned to play piano, drums, guitar, trumpet and harmonica. Neither Bob nor his younger brother Frank...