Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both of TIME'S chief reporters for the cover story on Italy's Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer are of Italian descent and in some measure "native." By this happenstance, they could both melt into the Italian ambiance and simultaneously keep the distancing perspective that they both have as U.S. citizens. The result is a unique reportage of Italy's troubled times...
...between two worlds. He was born in Milan, but his composer-father moved soon afterward to Los Angeles. After Harvard, Erik returned to Italy, as a sometime freelance, later as a staff member of TIME-LIFE Books. During this time, he turned out a book on the history of Italian-Americans, The Children of Columbus. Amfitheatrof has run up against the usual double take when people ask his name. Explains he: "In Italy, the custom is to spell out your name using an Italian city to represent each letter. In my case, it is Ancona, Milano, Firenze, Imola...
Other watchers of the Italian scene helped out with the story. Reporter Walter Galling went to Bologna to cover the speeches of Christian Democratic Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, and Reporter M.J. Wilson traveled to Naples on the heels of the Christian Democrats' ever-happy warrior, Amintore Fanfani. Stringer Maria Ondone flew to Sardinia to interview Berlinguer's relatives, friends and former teachers There she unearthed documents that included his baptismal certificate and an early appeal for free assembly that he wrote (in English) in 1944 to the Allied Military Government in Sardinia when he was secretary...
...their customers are as enthusiastic. Prices are generally high. Italian factory workers, like their U.S. counterparts, occasionally produce shoddy merchandise. Some of the salespeople-particularly at Gucci-have been accused of arrogance in their treatment of shoppers. But the clients can also be fickle. "We have had to stop making shoes to order," says Ferragamo's Nuti. "We got stuck with too many purple shoes with gold tassels that people decided they didn't want after...
...Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits and the Best of Connie Francis. Suddenly, a smoothly handsome, oddly familiar-looking young crooner appears on a softly back-lighted stage. While he pumps a microphone and purrs out a ballad, viewers begin to wonder: Como's kid brother maybe? An Italian Goulet? Then on comes the voiceover, hailing the "mood rock" sound of that nationwide heartthrob, Peter Lemongello...