Word: italianize
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Graduate students agree that the course is a valuable aid to teaching. "It gives you a theoretical and technical basis to develop a teaching method of your own," Franco A. Mormando, a graduate student in Italian who took the course two years ago, said yesterday, adding, "It makes you realize that you can't walk off the street to teach, that being a good teacher means being utterly prepared...
Both Mormando and Debbie Contrada, a teacher in Italie E who won the prize last year as a teacher in Italian C, spent their award doing dissertation research in Italy and brushing up on their spoken Italian...
...Danbury State Fair had become an anachronism. It celebrated the farm at a time when farms hereabouts can be counted on two hands. But how people loved it: hundreds of thousands streamed through its gates every year to gawk at the livestock, ride the Ferris wheel and gorge on Italian submarine sandwiches and homemade pies. Finally, this stubborn outpost of rural sentiment could hold out no longer...
With parades, wreath-laying ceremonies and special Masses, Greeks this week will mark Ohi Day, one of their proudest national celebrations. It commemorates the day in 1940 when the government replied ohi (no) to Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini's ultimatum to allow his troops to occupy strategic points on Greek territory. Yet for a majority of Greeks Ohi Day came somewhat earlier this year. In a landslide election that brought to power the country's first socialist government, Greeks last week not only said ohi to the conservative New Democracy party, which has ruled for the past seven...
...with his beautiful black mistress and continued his mischief-making for another 43 years. A fascinating, tragic figure, Jefferson became an inspiration to generations of novelists, poets and composers. Sir Walter Scott used him as the hero of Monticello, and after one apparently jolly dinner at Jefferson's Italian villa, Shelley was moved to write...