Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That the Howe family is still powerful in Somerville is due at least inpart to their ability to avoid the subject of political corruption altogether. Marie Howe has for years been able to evade the question of personal ethics by making the issue one of ethnicity, accusing opposing Italian political families of "plots" and "vendettas" against her. In fact, she says, "It's an issue of the good people versus the bad people, with us being the good people.... They hate me because I'm totally uncorruptable...
...When the Pope died virtually unmourned after a pontificate of 20 months, someone hung laurels on the door of the papal physician who had failed to save his life. For 455 years after that, Adrian's disastrous tenure cast a "Dutch curse" over the possibility of another non-Italian Pope...
Italy will of course be the main testing ground, and the Polish Pope brings to Italian politics a new uncertainty, since he has no connections with any political leaders. That fact may accelerate the recent and healthy trend among Christian Democrats to compete as a normal political party...
...Italian Communists hope to convince the new Pope that there is a clear distinction between their Eurocommunism and the Communism in Eastern Europe. The effort, concedes one Party editor, "may push us to emphasize more and more sharply our difference from Soviet and East European Communists." In any case, the editor acknowledges, "when this Pope speaks about Communism he will do it with much more authority than past Pontiffs. People will believe his words more than they believed theirs." After three decades of jousting with Communism, John Paul II could hardly expect less...
Nevertheless, you are likely to find some diversity within most of the final clubs. "Even the Porc," said a clubbie. Blacks, Italian surnames, Irish surnames are found among the Cabots and the Lowells...