Word: piccoli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Vittorio Podrecca, 76, creator of the Rome-based Piccoli puppet theater, a group of 800 sprightly marionettes (manipulated by 23 minutely trained humans) who parodied human behavior from bullfights to ballet, charmed European and U.S. audiences in their grand tours in the '30s; in Geneva...
Round-faced, grey-haired little Don Zeno, 50, is the founder and sparkplug of Nomadelphia, which means "Town of Brotherhood." His followers call themselves the Piccoli Apostoli (Little Apostles). The Little Apostles may well contain the seeds of a movement destined to outlast Don Zeno and his disordered century...