Word: italianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANTONIO IN LOVE, by Giuseppe Berto. The Italian novelist listens to young love's first brave banalities with a nice ear for irony...
...hospital attendants found powder burns on their clothes. As some in the crowd fled in panic and others dived to the ground, student snipers opened fire on the troops from surrounding apartments. For ten minutes, massive gun fire reverberated through the plaza, and sporadic gunfire continued for another hour. Italian Authoress Oriana Fallaci, on assignment for L'Europeo magazine, was shot in the back and leg; two men standing beside her were killed. In all, at least 33 civilians and one soldier died, at least 500 were wounded, and 1,650 people were arrested...
...President: "Texas produced some great men: Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin and Lyndon Johnson. Two out of three isn't bad." And the once risky subjects of race, religion and nationality are treated just as irreverently. "Who put the last seven bullets into Mussolini? Three hundred Italian sharpshooters...
...line of their pro-Wallace state- ment read: "The whole nation, stirred to teeming excitement by his eloquence, has tingled in every polyglot branch: English and French, Irish and Italian, German and Polish, Hungarian and Japanese, black and white, Swede and Magyar, all have mouthed his name in ecstasy, flnging the wonderful sound to the blue God-given skies until the vast ness of America roared...
...would "slash his own mother's 'wrists in order to win, and take pleasure doing it." He enjoys a lurid private life: cadres of call girls in New York balanced by orgies on the Coast. He hangs out at Mercurio's restaurant in Manhattan, wears Italian marble cuff links carved with the network initials and terrorizes the television industry. But BCA boasts smarter savages than Bingham. He is booted out, thanks to the connivance of, among others, a homosexual programming chief in Hollywood...