Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University fellows and faculty gather and reside at these dwellings, where they are treated to intensive study combined with a sense of the highlife. Sumptuous home grown delicacies and brilliant vistas are among the fringe benefits of studying at such Harvard locales as the Italian estate, Villa I Tatti...
Harvard's most elaborate property is the 16th century Italian estate, Villa I Tatti. Surrounded by two lines of grand cypress trees, carefully manicured hedges and impressive fountains, the Center for Renaissance Studies offers scholars a place to indulge in their studies and the Italian way of life...
...treacherous obstacle course of risers and steps. As a result, Marton, born for the title role, was oddly tentative, the sturdy Domingo seemed distracted and ill at ease, while Soprano Leona Mitchell's hey-look-me-over Liu was too aggressive. Only Cuenod's crotchety Emperor -- a Swiss singing Italian the way he imagines a Chinese might -- hit the mark. James Levine conducted grandly, and the powerful choruses were declaimed lustily if not suavely...
...power. The document, however, does more than insist that Catholics submit to its instructions; it also calls on governments to pass laws prohibiting a number of the controversial reproductive techniques. The Pope clearly expects his bishops to lobby for such statutes. The day after the text was published, the Italian bishops urged their nation's legislators to create a "legal order conforming to the needs of moral...
...case involved an intricate $1.6 billion drug-smuggling operation, partly planned in obscure places like a Queens, N.Y., pizzeria. The Government presented hundreds of witnesses, hours of bugged conversations and thousands of documents. Actors were brought in to read dialogue from the wiretaps, and interpreters translated proceedings into Italian for some of the defendants...