Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freedberg, who admits to not caring for American art, is an expert in Italian "mannerist" paintings. This decadent school following the great period of rennaissance can be recognized by attenuated figures and women gazing maukishly heavenward amid swirls of skillfully painted drapery and arabesques--interesting to him perhaps, but to ordinary bread eating mortals like ourselves they are better for giving away than viewing...
Would Mr. Puzo like to tell us what proof he has that "it is a psychological fact that Italians do not give to organized charities"? He can speak only for himself. I can list dozens of men and women of Italian heritage who not only contribute to the Red Cross and other charitable, cultural and educational institutions, but also give generously of their time and talents to every sort of worthwhile endeavor...
ROME, Italy--Anti-terror specialists Wednesday night captured Red Brigade leader Corrado Alunni, wanted in connection with 12 murders, including the recent killings of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and his five bodyguards...
...leave you one. The Fascists leave you all the cows, but they come and milk then all.' I'm afraid that tomorrow we'll be able to say something similar: 'The Communists of the Soviet Union rob you of al most all your freedom. The Italian Communists promise to leave you all of it, but in reality...
...woman is the bored and elegant wife of a witty, philandering Italian diplomat stationed in Greece in 1936, when, as people used to say, the war clouds were gathering. What she sees from her window is a Communist on the run from a police roundup ordered by a new fascist dictatorship. What happens after he climbs through the window is that love conquers the class barriers and she devises an elaborate stratagem to help him escape the country. Later, we are given to understand, she joins him and they both become martyrs to his cause after World War II begins...