Word: italianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While posing for photographers in Chiswick, England, the happy couple gazed fondly down on their newborn son Carlo. But the mother, Actress Vanessa Redgrave, made it clear that there was one thing the future did not include: her marriage to the boy's father, Italian Actor Franco Nero. The free-spirited star of The Loves of Isadora had said, when she announced her pregnancy in April, that she had no plans to marry Nero ("I don't think marriage would make me a very nice person to live with"). Carlo's birth has made Vanessa no less...
...calling by which he is best known almost by accident. His education was more appropriate for a scholar than for a designer: he holds an M.A. in social science from Reed College in Oregon and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florence. Pucci joined the Italian air force in World War II and garlanded himself in medals and citations as a bomber pilot. With the war's end, he settled in Switzerland, living the good life on the slopes. It was at St. Moritz that a roving Harper's Bazaar photographer encouraged his sartorial talent...
Vellucci also announced last night his candidacy for the Presidency of Harvard College, citing his experience on the Cambridge School Committee and as President of the Cambridge Italian-American Committee...
Italy's bargaining climate is certainly not helped by the succession of three weak caretaker governments that have held power since May 1968. But far deeper causes underlie much of the labor unrest. Italian workers are caught between the higher cost of living brought on by the nation's celebrated II Boom and a notoriously unresponsive national leadership. Italy's public services, from education to rapid transit, are among the poorest in Western Europe...
...Defregger Affair" was in the news again. Three months ago Bishop Matthias Defregger, 54, of Munich, was publicly accused of having participated in the wartime executions of 17 men from the Italian village of Filetto di Camarda; Defregger, then a Wehrmacht captain, had passed on the execution order avenging the murder of one or more German soldiers. Authorities in Frankfurt eventually dropped the case. Last week, however, the Munich prosecutor had taken up the Defregger affair and was contemplating charges...