Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority on East-West issues, at Williamsburg he should have comfort in numbers. Three of his fellow leaders - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and West Germany's Kohl - share many of Reagan's economic and social philosophies. The others -Mitterrand, Trudeau and Italian Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani - lean more to the center and the left...
...reader beware; the canny old master of Italian fiction has once again pulled a fast one. Of Alberto Moravia's five covertly political novels of the past three decades, 1934 is the most disguised. His previous novel, Time of Desecration (1980), was tricky enough; masquerading as a manual of kinky sex, it was, in fact, a riveting case history of the psychopathology of terrorism. In 1934, Moravia has obscured his true intentions by adopting the histrionic manner and high-flown diction of German romanticism. The effect is bizarre and not always convincing...
...quick survey: Out of 10 books picked randomly in the Portuguese History and Literature section of the stacks, only two had been checked out in the last decade. In the Yiddish Literature section only one. In Italian History and Literature (1800-1899) two, in Oriental Literatures two, in Bibliography--History of Libraries two And in the Mid East Section. I had to go through 27 books before brooks before finding one that had ever been checked...
...Cannes Film Festival last week, fans and film hustlers were tripping over their Guccis to get a look at the postprison Loren. She was there to get an honorary trophy for representing "the long and great tradition of love that unites the festival at Cannes and the Italian cinema." A nice sentiment and, since the award carries no cash value, no tax problems either...
...great embarrassments in Roman Catholic Church history is the condemnation of Italian Astronomer Galileo Galilei by the Holy Office as "vehemently suspected of heresy." His crime: writing in defense of Copernicus' hypothesis that the earth revolves around the sun. In 1616 the Holy Office had proclaimed the Copernican view "formally heretical, inasmuch as it expressly contradicts the doctrines of Holy Scripture in many places, both according to their literal meaning" and the common interpretation of the early Church Fathers. The head of the Holy Office, which was responsible for seeking out heresy, ordered Galileo not to disseminate his views...