Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Lord Perth, the British Ambassador in Rome, was conferring almost daily last week on the most amicable terms with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, II Duce's son-in-law, and since at Moscow the Stalin regime chose last week not to make counter threats which might have given Italy and Germany pause, the dominant factor in Spain's civil war was not to be found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe...
Therefore, of the $9,849,697 which Mr. Fosdick last year distributed for the Rockefeller Foundation, no Italian, Japanese or Russian institution received a cent. In Germany the only beneficiary was the University of Freiburg, which received $19,600. But English institutions received $671,980; French $216,800; Scandinavian and Finnish $191,225. To help the Chinese Government "make over a medieval society in terms of modern knowledge," the Rockefeller Foundation last year allotted $843,875. But "the work, the devotion, the resources, the strategic plans of Chinese leaders for a better China, have disappeared in an almost unprecedented cataclysm...
...Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, the Rockefeller Foundation looks down on great liners moored in the Hudson River. Among the ships on which the Foundation's chairman, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., and its president, Raymond Elaine Fosdick, looked last week were the German steamers Deutschland and Columbus, the Italian Rex. Fresh from the printer was the opinion of the governments symbolized by those ships, which President Fosdick was about to deliver to Mr. Rockefeller and the other 18 trustees of the $150,000,000 philanthropic Foundation. Wrote this great almoner...
...tinklers, were unknown in the Western world until Roman churches began using them in the 5th century, A. D. In the Spear collection are bells from the period when the first European bells were cast instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny gold bell in the form of a jaguar's head, found in Costa Rica, can be viewed only in the presence...
...cello is the big, booming baritone of the violin family, and it takes a young and husky man to play it. From 17th-century Italian Domenico Gabrielli to 20th-century Russian Gregor Piatigorsky, successful cellists have been men of brawn. Lesser cellists, like Composer Jacques Offenbach, Composer Victor Herbert, and Conductor Arturo Toscanini, have often become famous for other things than cello playing. But the greatest cellists have usually spent a whole lifetime taming the thick strings and finger-defying dimensions of their instruments. Such were France's owl-faced Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819), Germany's muscular...