Word: orvieto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overthrow of Mussolini, Kesselring writes: "It was only to be expected that as the war went on the Italians would try to make things easier for themselves by ratting to the other side." Italian "treachery" notwithstanding, he claims and probably deserves credit for sparing such culturally rich towns as Orvieto, Perugia, Urbino, Siena, Padua, Ravenna and Venice from military destruction. He admits "the destruction of the wonderful [Florentine] bridges across the Arno." As for the famed monastery of Monte Cassino, Kesselring stoutly denies that the German armies ever put it to military...
...floor." In Venice, they fed the pigeons in St. Mark's Square, drifted down the Grand Canal in gondolas, and pointed out to each other the palaces once lived in by Byron and Browning. They rolled through the hill towns of Siena, Perugia and Orvieto in air-conditioned motor coaches of the government's CIAT Travel Agency (Florence to Rome: $6.50), equipped with radios, lavatories, bars and pretty hostesses...
...transition between childhood and manhood. Writers describing this haunting, tragicomic change of life too often bog down in self-pity and autobiography. But Moravia has pared away all egocentric mush from these two hardheaded stories. They have the clarity and bite of a good, dry Orvieto wine...
...great Corpus Christi procession from St. Peter's Basilica Thursday of last week, before 300,000 onlookers, the corporal of Orvieto, carried aloft by robed, red-sashed Bohemian priests, moved just in front of Pius XII. It was observed that during the procession the Pope kept his eyes on the reliquary. The Communist mayor of Bolsena, wearing a tri-colored sash, was on hand...
Mayor Gregori of Orvieto was not present...