Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 200,000 Roman workers stayed away from their jobs the first morning. Communist demonstrators filled the squares, but the De Gasperi government-rather to the general surprise-had done some stage-setting, too. A battalion of regular army troops with full field equipment took up positions in the Piazza Colonna. Armored cars and fast police jeeps rolled through the streets. When a demonstration was expected at the Ministry of the Interior, firemen played a few jets of cold water through the air. There was no demonstration...
Bicycles & Opera Bouffe. The Roman temperament had as much to do as the police with turning Act II of the Communist pageant into opera bouffe. From the suburbs each morning of the strike came a gala stream of bicycles. Cycling gallants stopped at the homes of working girls, happily wheeled them to work (as many as dared) or to the park (as all wanted). Fathers joined families in morning strolls behind baby carriages, through the Villa Borghese pines or along the slopes beside the Appian Way. All the cafes were supposed to be tight shut. Some were, but near...
...brilliantly led Italian Communist Party stumbled? Partly because they had picked a phony strike issue. But principally because the Roman people drew upon their centuries-mellowed store of humor. They refused to play an audience role before a show that insulted their intelligence. They clambered into the wings, pulled the switches, snipped the ropes and brought the curtain tumbling on the Communist week of experiment...
...stubby hands, "what a dome that Gandhi had!") The writers included Conrad, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, G. B. Shaw, D. H. Lawrence (whose thin, bearded face Davidson had made indomitable as a plow), Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, and 1947 Nobel Prizewinner André Gide, looking like a Roman Senator in marble. Helen Keller was portrayed with her thinking hands upraised. Charlie Chaplin's vain, subtle face bowed in a corner. Einstein's uncombed locks stood forever snarled in bronze. John D. Rockefeller Sr. pursed withered lips. Ernie Pyle grinned shyly from a pedestal. And there was also...
...hardly right: she seems conscientiously rather than constitutionally wily and sluttish. Marc Antony is played by English Actor Godfrey Tearle (whose close resemblance to F.D.R. won him the role of the U.S. wartime President in MGM's atom-bomb movie, The Beginning or the End). As the ablest Roman of them all brought low by middle-aged lust, Tearle is brilliantly effective...