Word: sardinians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spanish Influence. Rome's Daily American describes Berlinguer as "a movie type caster's idea of an Italian radical." He is slight, wiry, crewcut, courteous but cool in manner. He has dark, piercing eyes and the swarthy color of a Sardinian (Catalan influence in his native Sardinia accounts for his Spanish-sounding name). He is served well at interminably long party meetings by another physical attribute: he can sit for hours without getting sore or restless. For this, comrades at national headquarters on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure call him culo di ferro, which roughly translates...
Central Casting would have to type Berlinguer as a white-collar Communist rather than a peasant. His lawyer grandfather was a Sardinian republican in the days of the Italian monarchy; his lawyer father was a socialist anti-Fascist during the Mussolini era. Berlinguer studied law before he decided "to fight for the profound transformation of all social assets" and at 21 joined the Communist Party. Jailed by the Fascists for activities in Sardinia, Berlinguer came to the attention of the party's leader, Palmiro Togliatti...
...major success of the antibandit drive to date has been the capture of the most celebrated bandit of them all, Graziano Mesina, 26. The darkly handsome Mesina, an idol to many Sardinian women and youth, surrendered without a fight last month when stopped at a police roadblock. But thousands of his cohorts have managed to elude their pursuers and blithely continue to collect their ransoms. Feeding the specter of fear, they have sent their kidnap victims back home with breathless accounts of their cruelty. "They talked in an atmosphere of bestial excitement," reported wealthy Cattleman Giovanni Campus, 32, whose family...
Signature Window. Breuer's problem began when he was handed a small corner plot only 104 ft. by 125 ft. To create within five stories a total floor space seven times as great as the site, he proceeded much like a Sardinian baker, who, with every piece of dough he subtracts, adds it back some place else in the loaf. Thus to compensate for space lost by the indoor-outdoor sculpture garden and the host of first-floor functional requirements, from coat racks and publications desk to unloading platforms, Breuer designed cantilevered upper floors to produce progressively larger galleries...
Although Corbu became the most influential, and possibly the most irritable architect of the 20th century (TIME cover, May 5, 1961), he could only bear the friendship of down-to-earth people, such as his Monaco-born wife Yvonne Gallis, who died in 1957, and the Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola, for whose Long Island house he did murals. Mainly, he took refuge in solitude. For the past 15 years he summered in seclusion at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin-on the French Riviera. There he avoided autograph hunters in a 6-ft. by 15-ft. two-room cabin with a corrugated...