Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aides regard Ferraro, despite her liberalism and Queens accent, as a woman for all regions who can appeal to every type of voter. Blue-collar, urban ethnic voters, especially Roman Catholics, will listen to her, they think, because she is one of them: the Catholic daughter of an Italian immigrant who represents a conservative blue-collar district. Well-educated suburbanites may be attracted to her as a symbol of new ideas and new departures in politics, even though her voting record in the House followed a rather traditional liberal Democratic line. Democrats hope she will win voters under...
...contrast, Cuomo offered as the patron of his party's principles the man G.K. Chesterton called "the world's one quite sincere democrat," St. Francis of Assisi. The wealthy 13th century Italian, a man-about-town who was "born again" and founded the Franciscan order, is a Cuomo favorite. The Governor suggested that if St. Francis were alive today, his ascetic devotion to the poor, sick and oppressed might have led him to progressive politics and the ideals of the Democratic Party. Though Republicans may jeer at Cuomo's sudden secularization of a saint and dismiss...
Silverblatt's feeling came from a dollar that this summer has hit all-time highs against nine foreign currencies, including the British pound, the French franc and the Italian lira. The surge has helped to propel American tourists abroad in ever growing numbers. Applicants at the 13 U.S. passport agencies have had to wait up to eight hours this summer just to reach the counter, and clerks have been working six-day weeks. The frantic pace should outstrip last year's, when U.S. travelers made a record 25.3 million trips abroad...
DIED. Karl Wolff, 84, storm-trooper general and Nazi military governor of Italy who negotiated the surrender of 1 million German and Italian troops to the Allies on May 2, 1945, six days before the Third Reich collapsed; after a long illness; in Rosenheim, Germany. Although he was chief adjutant to SS Commander Heinrich Himmler, Wolff after the war denied knowledge of Hitler's final solution and was not tried as a war criminal. In 1964, however, he became the highest-ranking Nazi officer to be tried in a West German court; he was sentenced to 15 years...
...lose, the director as hero has emerged as the most powerful force in the theater today. At the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles this month, two repertory staples got the full treatment: the Piccolo Teatro di Milano presented a visionary version of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Italian, directed by Giorgio Strehler, while London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in its U.S. debut offered the premiere of Andrei Serban's wrongheaded setting of Puccini's Turandot...