Word: italianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left by the West's strongest Communist Party, while the center is pre-empted by the dominant Christian Democrats. Ever in search of a role, often quarreling among themselves, the Socialists have contributed greatly to Italy's protean politics. They have just caused the latest Italian government crisis, and brought down the promising government of Christian Democrat Mariano Rumor...
...Socialists under longtime Leader Pietro Nenni participate in the Christian Democratic government. But ideologically, they often cooperate with the Communists. This so enrages the Christian Democrats that they toss Nenni out as Foreign Minister. It so troubles the moderate Socialists that they split off and regroup as the Italian Socialist Workers' Party and later as the Social Democrats...
...even more votes than they lost last year. They have split and reunited too many times to be taken seriously any longer. Automaker Giovanni Agnelli, a shrewd political observer if not a disinterested one as head of the vast Fiat enterprises, calls the latest schism "the death knell of Italian Socialism." Adds Agnelli: "In the future, the Socialists can only be complementary to a government." They will still have parliamentary seats, still occupy a place on the stage of Italian politics. But their role like that of the monarchists, for instance, is not likely to be central...
...only a question of time. Carlo Ponti Jr., long-awaited son of the Italian producer and Actress Sophia Loren, will become a contributor to the family cinematic combine at the tender age of six months. In I Girasoli (The Sunflowers), a Ponti production now filming in Moscow, Carlo Jr. will portray Sophia's infant son. "I managed to convince Carlo Sr. to allow our son to work in the movie so I could have my baby with me all the time," she said. "I don't want to be away from him for a moment." The script offers...
...case involved the little Apennine mountain village of Filetto di Camarda, 100 miles northeast of Rome. In 1944, Defregger was a captain in command of an intelligence company in the area. On June 7 of that year, Italian partisans had shot at least one German soldier in a radio transmitter unit of his company. According to Defregger's own account in Der Spiegel, there had been four victims, not one; the division commander retaliated by ordering the captain to "pick up 20 to 22 local men in the 20-to-50 age group and execute them." Eventually...