Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lombardy, which includes industrial Milan, is one of the citadels of Communist Party strength (some 340,000 of the total claimed Italian membership of 2,500,000). A recent drop in party membership there, and a more serious decline of 75,000 membership in Lombardy's Red-run trade unions, shows the need for a tough, driving organizer of Secchia's caliber. But it is also the kind of job in which an out-of-favor Communist can be made to look bad. If the Communists intended to honor Secchia with the appointment, they would hardly have removed...
Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Italian movie reporters, holding their annual banquet for film luminaries in Rome's Grand Hotel, succeeded in plunging some of the glamorous guests, cinemactresses from many nations, into a pleasantly informal rivalry over the matter of whose neckline plunged deepest...
...shade, drivers wilted like limp lettuce, and some dropped out to recuperate from heat exhaustion every few laps on the burning 2.4-mile track. Cars changed hands so often that a partisan crowd, rooting for Argentine Favorite José Froilan González in his Italian Ferrari, often found itself cheering his teammates, France's Maurice Trintignant or Italy's Giuseppe Farina...
...Ulrica, in Un Ballo in Maschera (TIME, Jan. 17), made fortissimo headlines, and this week Baritone Robert McFerrin is causing another stir at the Met by singing the Ethiopian king Amonasro in Aida. The NBC Opera Theater was even bolder: this week it cast Leontyne Price, 26, as the Italian opera singer Tosca...
...considerable lure. Its old Kit Carsonish liar, whose opening gun is "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with a midget weighing 39 pounds," its beplumed society lady who springs to her feet when a Salvation Army hymn strikes up, its old woman jabbering rapid-fire Italian, its nervous swain constantly dropping nickels into a pay phone, its persistent fanatic nursing along the marbles game-these have a fine exuberance and humor about them, and have the wackiness -plus a Saroyanesque warmth-of a You Can't Take It with...