Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British music has long been treated like a poor relation in the world's concert halls-the sick man of Europe. German, Italian, French and Russian compositions make up the bulk of the standard repertory. But British music-with a rich tradition stretching from Tudor church composers like William Byrd to innovative moderns like Peter Maxwell Davies-is patronized as a national school, a sort of cultural Toby-jug collection, of interest chiefly to natives and diehard Anglophiles elsewhere...
...just sort of changes the channel as smooth as ever, and begins talking about his future--both short and long range. A government thesis on the relationship between multinational companies and the Argentinian government is first on the agenda, as well as organizing activities as president of the Italian Club (he speaks four languages...
...Coolidge Corner, Lina Wert-mueller's Swept Away makes you wonder if part of the avant-garde hasn't decided it is too cool for feminism. A northern Italian bitch-goddess (Mariangela Melato) teases and insults a poor, swarthy crew member (Giancarlo Giannini) on her husband's yacht, and when the two of them find themselves marooned on an uninhabited island everything turns upside down. Giannini turns his former oppressor into his concubine/serf and, as in Seven Beauties, shows he can do more with his eyes than anyone this side of Marty Feldman. There is a kind of love...
...stranger to controversy, last week took a bold step to bridle the Society of Jesus. In a move interpreted as a warning to all religious orders, he suspended the normal workings of the Jesuit Constitutions, removed the acting leader of the organization and replaced him with two Italian Jesuits who enjoy the Vatican's confidence: Paolo Dezza, 79, and Joseph Pittau...
...educated herself, reading widely and becoming fluent in Spanish, French and Italian. After returning to the U.S. in 1929, she studied philosophy under Bertrand Russel at Columbia, where the two became fast friends and weekly dinner partners. But Fenwick didn't appreciate Russell's anti-American sentiments, and the friendship soon ended...