Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clipped from an insurance ad--on the laundry cardboard from his button-down shirts.) Occasonally he wanders to the river, looking for dandelions--the universal symbol of simple innocence and purity. More often, he stands before the plate-glass display of Cardullo's--with a libidinous twitch at the Italian sausage...
Back in Bloom. The response was an outburst of fury unparalleled since the Hungarian revolt itself. Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella withdrew his nation's Minister to Budapest, refused to consent to the appointment of a new Hungarian Minister to Rome. In Montevideo students hurled a gasoline bomb at the Soviet embassy, and Russian missions in New Zealand, Bonn, Istanbul and Copenhagen were all stoned. (As a countermeasure, the Russians permitted a carefully stage-managed crowd to break seven windows in the Danish embassy in Moscow...
...most passionate outbursts, because they came from those who still wanted to believe in a U.S.S.R. change of heart, occurred among the neutralist powers and Europe's left-wing fringe. Avanti, organ of Pietro Nenni's red-tinged Italian Socialist Party, proclaimed that the executions "bring us back in full bloom" to the era of Stalinism. Burma's Premier U Nu called them "a horrible act." The Indonesian Socialist daily Pedoman drew a local moral: "We cannot fool around with the idea of cooperation with the Reds." In India, where Nehru's equivocation blunted the impact...
...credited with bringing back Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks from Milan (he wanted to bring Leonardo's The Last Supper, but it was impracticable to remove the mural from the wall of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie), is responsible for starting the Italian collection. Four of his Da Vincis and six Raphaels are still in the Louvre. When Catherine de Medici, a generation later, erected her own palace on the site of an old tile factory, the Tuileries, more than a quarter-mile away, and suggested that the two palaces be joined...
Louis Philippe, "the Citizen King," sent his agent, Baron Taylor, to investigate the possibilities in Spain with 1,327,000 francs ($252,130), got back a staggering 412 Spanish paintings plus 41 Italian and northern works of art. Added to these were 220 canvases willed by Scottish Admirer F. Hall Standish. Together they were one of the Louvre's greatest windfalls and lost opportunities. When Louis Philippe was forced to abdicate, he claimed the works as royal property, and they were sold in London after his death. "One does not dare to think of what the museum would have...