Word: mussolinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drained the city's malaria-breeding lowlands and on them built whole new developments such as Prati, where Rome's wealthy now dwell. It fortified him through the galling years when he repaired and built streets in Rome, ports in Sicily and roads of African conquest at Mussolini's whim. One day Mussolini called him to his Palazzo Venezia, said: "I can't see the Colosseum from my window." Replied Vaselli: "There's a hill in the way. Give me an order and I'll remove it." Cried the Duce: "I want a wide...
Blundering Theorist. For five years Minister of Interior Vallenilla Lanz, 45, had been Perez Jimenez' chief flatterer, political soothsayer and official philosopher. Suave, well educated (at Paris' Sorbonne) and bookish, Minister Vallenilla mixed ideas from Mussolini, Thorstein Veblen and the U.S. fad of technocracy into a theory justifying dictatorship as the happiest state for Venezuelans. In working out what he called a "New National Ideal," Francophile, anticlerical Vallenilla Lanz led the dictator into many a blunder. One was December's unpalatable yes-or-no plebiscite for a second five-year term. Another was a conflict with...
What Greece was to classic Rome as a fountainhead of art and craftsmanship, Italy for more than 500 years has been to Western Europe. Temporarily cut off by Mussolini's Fascist regime, Italian painters, sculptors and architects have rebounded in the postwar years to make Rome a serious rival of Paris as Europe's art capital. At year's end in Milan and Manhattan, two of Italy's leading painters showed that in painting, as in music, a bel canto lyricism is still a trademark of Italian...
...Mussolini, the latest example of a notably successful TV specialty, is in great part a monument to a new kind of sleuth: the film searcher. Before Twentieth Century could fit together the show's dramatic jigsaw pattern in celluloid, searchers had to hunt out the bits and pieces of aging film in 25 different hoards in four countries; to give editors a choice, they brought in ten times as much footage as editors could...
...sniff out Mussolini footage. Associate Producer Isaac (Ike) Kleinerman. who helped put together Victory at Sea at NBC, went to Rome last April. He found a trove of early footage in Italian archives, but government officials refused to let any of it out of the country. Instead, he dug valuable old clips out of French newsreel files. And, like the bluebird of happiness, the best footage he had seen in Rome turned up in copies back in Manhattan, where a search unearthed a Fascist documentary shot in the late '205 with a script by Benito Mussolini himself...