Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maserati is an industrial concern of Modena, Italy, which has established an outstanding reputation as a manufacturer of precision tools and automobiles. Your statements that Maserati President Adolfo Orsi owed Credito Italiano, an Italian bank, $15,600, that he wrote a check with no funds to cover it and that the bank asked that he be declared bankrupt are untrue. So is your statement that Credito Italiano "sent the shamed Orsis into hiding"; we have been for many years and still are openly and actively engaged in the management of Maserati. No bankruptcy petition was ever instituted against Maserati...
Courses set up especially for industry get word lists tailored to the trade; Berlitz-drilled operatives for a large soup company prowled Italy, snooped out a formula for minestrone in fluent culinary Italian. Berlitz spends much of his time abroad, keeping an ear out for language changes, next week will be in Scandinavia plotting a new teach-yourself primer combining Danish, Norwegian and Swedish...
...Rome's Palazzo Barberini, whimsical, Sicilian-born Emilio Greco, 44, winner of the top Italian sculpture award at the last Venice Biennale, showed 42 sculptures covering 20 years' work. To Sculptor Greco's delight, it was his newest work, three monumental bronze Grand Bathers, that had the critics (including famed Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù) singing his praises...
...give it but cannot: they "embraced and sighed over their lost youth. They pressed mouths together and parted forever.'' Behold the Key is a vastly comic story of a young American whose search for an inexpensive Roman apartment sends him ricocheting from one involved and Machiavellian Italian to another and leaves him on the last page dazed, dazzled and without an apartment but wholly in love with Italy. Author Malamud's deft hand slips occasionally, as in The Lady of the Lake, an oddly unconvincing tale about a Jew who denies his Jewishness, and in Angel Levine...
What is strong and moving about Two Women stems from the unblinking Italian taste for realismo and Author Moravia's vividly tactile imagery, which makes the reader smart with the sting of his heroines' indignities. What is weak and irritating is Leftist Moravia's implicit conviction that war is really a bloody reprise of the class struggle. The only emotion more persuasive than pity that he displays in Two Women is self-pity. When it comes to man's fate-the tragedy that lies too deep for tears-Moravia, the master weeper, refuses to open...