Word: palazzi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five), the North American College gradually became part of the Roman scene. In 1928 North American College students helped ease expanding Rome's shortage of priests by assisting at Masses and blessing Roman buildings on Holy Saturday. Noted one exhausted student priest in his diary: "Blessed six palazzi. Everything possible. Butcher shop. Wine cellar. Sleeping baby. Woman 91 years old. Water-when...
...Crusaders showed up determined to prove that the experts had underrated them all season. Playing careful, controlled ball, they set up their plays neatly, fed the ball to burly (6 ft. 4 in., 205 Ibs.) Forward Togo Palazzi, who scored 20 points for the evening, wound up as the winner of the tournament's Most Valuable Player award. Off the boards, spring-legged Center Tom Heinsohn (6 ft. 6 in.) consistently outjumped Duquesne's defensive giants, Dick Ricketts (6 ft. 7½ in.) and Jim Tucker (6 ft. 7½ in.), and as he warmed up, Heinsohn began...
...Grand Canal of Venice is the most spectacular of all municipal thoroughfares. Graceful gondolas and chugging motorboats travel its waters, and its banks are lined with great pink-tinted palazzi, decorated with balconies and frills of cake-icing beauty and delicacy. Last week Venetians and Venice-lovers were engaged in a heated esthetic and sentimental wrangle with the advocates of progress and modern architecture. The issue: a proposal to construct a house designed by U.S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright on a curve of the Grand Canal...
...seven weeks off, but on the campaign's first Sunday, Italians from the shore of Como to the slums of Palermo gathered at a record 2,300 political rallies. Young volunteers rushed about with paintbrushes, paste pots and bills, to plaster Italy's piazze and palazzi, walls and ruins with the confusingly mixed-up slogans and emblems of about 18 different political parties. (Example: one party flaunted the rising sun, a second a full sun, a third the setting sun; at least three small parties encroached on the Communists' hammer & sickle.) There were some stunt candidacies (Tenor...
...town of Bassano del Grappa, at the foot of the Venetian Alps, Italian art lovers were paying their respects last week to a long-neglected figure of the Renaissance. His name was Jacopo da Ponte, and he lived from about 1515 to 1592, painting frescoes and altar pieces for palazzi and churches. As "Jacopo Bassano," he was once ranked with such contemporary greats as Titian and Tintoretto. But by later generations his fame had clouded, and he was considered just a gifted but uneven craftsman of the Venetian School. The exhibit in Bassano's Civic Museum showed...