Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Primate Edward Scott, 60, who is also chairman of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. But in the end, the commission decided Anglicanism was not ready to pick a non-Briton and thus "do a Wojtyla" (that is, echo Rome's election of a non-Italian as Pope...
Instead, the only heat of the evening came from the Italian sausages. "There's no speeches, none of that political crap," one man said, leaning close so he could be heard over the strains of "Somewhere, My Love," filling the hall...
...crowd, largely elderly, with Vellucci's East Cambridge Italian neighbors heavily represented, collected around Vellucci as he moved through the room. When he wandered off to another corner of the ballroom, they would explain why they turned out for his "thing" as these affairs are known in Cambridge political circles...
...example. Animals, people, have birth, growth, periods of vigor, then decline and death. Do societies obey that pattern? The idea of decadence, of course, implies exactly that. But it seems a risky metaphor. Historians like Arnold Toynbee, like the 14th century Berber Ibn-Khaldun and the 18th century Italian Giovanni Battista Vico, have constructed cyclical theories of civilizations that rise up in vigor, flourish, mature and then fall into decadence. Such theories may sometimes be too deterministic; they might well have failed, for example, to predict such a leap of civilization as the Renaissance. Ultimately, the process of decadence remains...
...commissioners' favorite means of transport were "air taxis," or executive jets, costing more than $600,000 last year. Italy's Lorenzo Natali made so many official trips to Rome that he managed to spend 104 days of the year in the Italian capital rather than in the commission's Brussels headquarters...