Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also on display is his famous Italian operetta. "II Pesceballo", which was written in 1862 and which has a very interesting history. It is based upon the familiar college song of former times, "The Lay of One Fishball." His purpose in writing it was to have it sung as a public entertainment, the proceeds to be used for helping the loyalists of eastern Tennessee who had been impoverished by the ravages of the Civil War. Professor Child submitted his Italian verses to James Russell Lowell '38 for revision. Lowell at once "dashed off" an English version, and the thing...
Before the time of Wagner, the use of foreign languages in grand opera had a raison d'etre in the musical quality of French and Italian; but no one would insist that the gutteral muttering of Teutonic heroes are more melodious than a reasonably good English version. There is really no reason for thinking it plebeian to enjoy understanding the words of an opera; the granting of this privilege is a type of one hundred percentism that has value...
...with what he styled "brutal frankness." The Government, he said, had put the lira on a gold basis (TIME, Jan. 2), but it will not go further and issue gold coins. Secondly, the Government will shortly lift most of the restrictions on foreign trading and exchange transactions with private Italian interests. Thirdly, notice is again given that Italy will continue repaying her debt to the U. S. only so long as her receipts from German reparations continue...
...know what fate history reserves for the Washington-London debt settlements during the next sixty years. What is certain is that no further sacrifice can be asked of the Italian nation than the giving up of the whole of her German reparations to paying off her War debts...
...companions: "I got a birdie here last week," instead of the oldtime "I shot a buffalo here." After his labors, he dreams over an advertisement: "To live at American Venice is to quaff the very Wine of Life. ... A turquoise lagoon under an aquamarine sky ! Lazy gondolas ! Beautiful Italian gardens! . . . And, ever present, the waters of the Great South Bay lapping lazily all the day upon a beach as white and fine as the soul of a little child "Thus, the log cabin of the modern pioneer...