Word: rosetta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women are a 35-year-old mother and her 18-year-old daughter. Cesira is a widowed shopkeeper whose sole strength is her daughter's need of her. Rosetta's convent education has scarcely prepared the girl for a world in which the bombers seem almost to have crowded God out of the heavens. When the bombing of Rome appears imminent, the two women flee southeast to the mountain fastnesses where Cesira was born. The return of the native proves harsh...
...Pigsty. The quality of the peasants' mercy is severely war-strained. When the slatternly mistress of the first refuge proposes to barter away Rosetta's virginity with the local Fascist bullyboys in exchange for her deserter sons' safety, Cesira and daughter take to the mountain roads in a predawn escape. Their next haven is a dirt-floored hut. This time they fall in with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks...
Subtract One. In Los Angeles, Rosetta L. Randall, 20, won a divorce from her husband Donald, 31, after testifying that he placed their marriage on a point system: "When I did anything right he'd give me points and when I did anything wrong he would take points away. I never knew the results. I had so many points taken away I guess I didn't have much of a score...
Stage Show (Sat. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey and their orchestra, with Guests Henny Youngman. Dick Haymes, Sister Rosetta Tharpe...
...full-dress study of the language of Communism has yet to be written, and would probably represent an intellectual feat more difficult than Bishop Colenso's codification of Zulu grammar or the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone. Meanwhile. Author Hodgkinson has made a commendable beginning...