Word: italiano
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...Circolo Italiano di Harvard e Radcliffe...
...expert exasperation as his dad and the wry, wise patience of Barbara Barrie's lovely performance as his mother. But the kid is not totally off the wall. It turns out that he is a talented, self-taught bicycle racer and that his fondness for things Italiano is really a reflection of his admiration for that nation's pre-eminence in the sport. Cycling becomes more than a pastime for him. It becomes the thing around which he begins to organize his life, giving him a sense of purpose and -when he finally wins the big race...
...other economic troubles was sharpened by a growing despair over an epidemic of violence. Then came a sudden eruption of new bloodshed. The troubles began over the long Epiphany weekend, when a team of six extremists, presumedly leftwing, pounced on a neighborhood headquarters of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.) on Rome's outskirts and assassinated two young people. In rioting that followed, another young M.S.I, member was killed in a clash with carabinieri...
...Circolo Italiano...
...influence, if not control, economic policymaking in the next government. (The Paris-based newsmagazine L'Express recently caricatured French Communist Leader Georges Marchais eating spaghetti with a hammer and sickle in anticipation of the boost to his own party.) In its public pronouncements, at least, the Partito Comunista Italiano (P.C.I.) has disowned one of the basic tenets of Marxist economic analysis: that capitalism is in the process of being destroyed by its own contradictions. "This [Italy's economic] crisis is not an invention of the capitalist world," says P.C.I. Economist Eugenic Peggio. "It is an objective event...