Word: sera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milan, where the show attracted 5,000 during the summer art season doldrums, the recognized critics took quite a different view. Wrote Carriere della Sera's Leonardo Borgese: "It is not new. It is not painting. It is not America . . . Droppings of paint, sprayings, burstings, lumps, squirts, whirls, rubs and marks, erasures, scrawls, doodles and kaleidoscope backgrounds. When will they send us a real American show?" The owner of one of Milan's art galleries took one look, snorted, "Droolings!" and departed...
Then she decided. Under her headdress she let her shaved hair grow a bit; from material sent in by friends she secretly stitched herself a skirt and blouse. One night she changed her clothes and mingled with visitors who were leaving the convent. "Buona sera," she nodded to the gatekeeper, and stepped out into the lighted street...
Said Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd: "I cannot imagine how they expect business to be done in this way ... to deliver a violent attack on the U.S." Said Rome's independent-center Momenta-Sera: "Everything shows Moscow's intention is to increase international tension in order to get the maximum from a top-level meeting convoked in haste." Another key point, put to the United Press by a Western diplomat in Korea: "There is much feeling that Russia's move will actually strengthen the U.S.'s hand in Asia, because it shows previously doubtful...
...Milan has two pillars," runs a respectful Italian adage. "One is La Scala. The other is Carriere della Sera" By catering as faithfully as its operatic opposite number to middleclass, culture-conscious Milanese, Corriere has long reigned as Italy's biggest daily (circ. 505,000) and one of the most enterprising newspapers published anywhere. Known in Milan simply as The Newspaper, staid Corriere della Sera got its start and its name as an evening paper, now comes out in two editions every morning. It runs no comic strips, gossip columns or guessing games, clings solidly to the aim outlined...
Back in November, Nikita Khrushchev had observed condescendingly that America would inevitably have a Sputnik of its own before long. "We are waiting for it," he said. "There will be a community of Sputniks." In Rome, the Communist daily Paese Sera indicated it had noted Khrushchev's remarks and filed them away for future guidance. "The American baby moon," the paper said, "is now wheeling in the sky along with Sputnik II. We are sure Sputnik II has welcomed its young companion, saying: 'You are small, but you will grow.' Not even John Foster Dulles can keep...