Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strolling through Boston's North End usually means a search for either fresh fruit and vegetables or a good restaurant, not an art gallery. Still, if you are in the North End, and if Regina's pizza or some other Italian culinary delight does not lure you away first, consider travelling a few flights up at 77 North Washington Street to the Boston Visual Artists' Union (BVAU) gallery...
Tuesday April 11, Giorgio Napolitano, leader in the Italian Communist Party will speak on the political and economic crisis in Italy in Emerson 105 at 8 p.m. In the wake of the recent kidnapping of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro and other acts of violence by terrorists (or freedom fighters, depending on your perspective), the talk should be tinged with a measure of emotion and immediacy...
Although the Italian Communist Party has condemned the recent acts of terrorism, it has the most to benefit from the fear pervading the country. While on one hand the Communist Party assuages the fear that it condones such violence giving the party an air of respectability, on the other hand forces outside the party make it clear that the Christian Democrats must relinquish more power...
...there can be no alternation in power, of the kind that exists in the U.S., in Britain or in West Germany, as long as the French C.P. pursues so sectarian a strategy as to keep a majority of the French from voting for a Left-wing coalition. Unlike the Italian C.P., the French one continues to put the preservation of its own integrity--its electoral base and its hostility to any reformism it could not control--ahead of everything else. It even discards the opportunities for infiltration that gaining power would provide, if such power had to be shared with...
Given these credentials, Fuller is unlikely to be trusted by readers concerned with accuracy, responsibility or perception. A pity. For Fuller has just written a true, tragic account of Seveso. Italy, a town ravaged by a toxic chemical. The "Italian Hiroshima" occurred shortly after noon on July 10, 1976, when a chemical reactor at Icmesa, a plant owned by the Swiss firm of Hoffmann-La Roche, overheated, then blew its safety valve and released a huge grayish cloud into the clear Italian sky. Workers and company officials assumed that the cloud and the droplets that fell from it onto homes...