Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate (class of '32), he won a classics prize with an essay written in Greek and signed "Plato." Says Snowden, chuckling: "If you look in the Harvard Library index under Plato, you find one card that says, 'See Snowden.' " He reads Latin, Greek, German, French and Italian, and has written learned essays on slavery in ancient Pompeii and the role of Ethiopians in Roman history...
Born in Virginia and reared in Boston, Snowden knows Italy well. He studied there in 1938 as a Rosenwald fellow, and in 1949-50 as a Fulbright scholar. In 1953, as a lecturer for the State Department's International Information Administration, he told Italian audiences, in fluent Italian, about the improving lot of the Negroes in the U.S. From Rome, Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce notified Washington that Snowden's tour of Italy was "a very great success" and subsequently recommended him for the attache post. Remarked an Italian newspaperman last week: "This is the only kind of propaganda...
...birthplace in the Tirol made him first an Austrian, then (by the border rearranging at Versailles) an Italian. But first and last he was a European. As an Austrian during the Habsburg decline, he was an M.P. in the Austrian Parliament, an editor, a labor organizer. As an Italian, he was one of the founders of Italy's dominant Christian Democratic Party, and an enemy of Fascism. In 1926 Mussolini clapped him into Rome's infamous Queen of Heaven prison on the banks of the Tiber, where he languished for a year and a half until the Holy...
...respectable musical world has long regarded him as the giant who never grew up, an uneven talent full of romantic excesses ("Berlioz," mocked his fellow composer Franz Liszt, "liked to fancy himself draining Death's chalice to the dregs in a gloomy cavern, surrounded by Italian bandits, and gasping out a final curse upon mankind"). But slowly the critical tide has been turning. This year, following the 150th anniversary of his birth, orchestras across the U.S. have played more Berlioz than ever before. Tanglewood alone performed eight compositions-including the huge choral Te Deum and the Romeo and Juliet...
...sick and whipped dictator began mouthing extracts from a Life of Jesus and discovering "surprising analogies between his own fate and that of Christ." Too vain to surrender to the British, too indecisive to accept German protection, Mussolini blundered into the waiting hands of his bitterest enemies, the Italian partisans. By the time they dragged him, in pouring rain, to the wall against which he and Claretta were to be shot, he was much too obsessed with fear and misery to give a thought to anyone's feelings but his own. He never answered, and probably never heard, Claretta...