Word: sera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house with carved gables. Expeditions of monks were duly sent forth and at last one of them came upon the gold-roofed monastery and gabled peasant house. Disguising themselves as servants, the monks entered through the kitchen, and a two-year-old boy ran toward one of them crying, "Sera Lama, Sera Lama!" At this the monks' hearts leaped, for their leader was indeed the Lama of the Sera Monastery. Other tests were made: the boy unerringly chose from a number of rosaries the one that had been used by the old Dalai Lama, and he selected the drum...
...Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti. Rocco, 34, first worked or L'Unita and helped turn it from a wartime underground weekly into the official Communist daily (estimated circ 350.000), which claims to be Italy's second biggest newspaper (after Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera). On Il Paese (estimated circ. 50,000), L'Unita's sister paper, Rocco played up stories of Russian brutality in Hungary, persuaded Editor in Chief Tomaso Smith to run editorials blasting L'Unita's attempts to blame the uprisings on "fascist counter-revolutionaries." When Rocco refused to join...
...distracting Italy from other serious problems, she 'helped get U.S. backing for a brass-tacks London negotiating conference, meanwhile worked hard in Rome to help iron out details of a Trieste settlement that still works ("No one will ever know," wrote Milan's major daily Corriere della Sera, at the time of the Trieste settlement, "how much Italy owes to this fragile blonde...
Last week the Carracci received a tribute from the greatest holdout of them all, Critic Bernard Berenson,,' who once dismissed their whole school as "worthless." Wrote Berenson in Milan's Corriere della Sera: "After a century of obscurity and almost oblivion the Carracci, with a roll of drums and the sound of trumpets, have made their great comeback in Bologna." Berenson still refused to place the Carracci "among the greatest painters," but he gave a cheer for Annibale's Butcher Shop. Said he: "My attention is attracted by the realism that pervades this painting...
...Florentine tempest began blowing up when Italian newspapers, with the sinking of the Andrea Doria fresh in mind, pointed out in alarm that Florence's treasures would be shipped to the U.S. aboard a U.S. Navy transport. Additional qualms were quickly forthcoming. Asked Corriere delta Sera: "Who knows what effect the humidity may have on these paintings, and the packing, the unpacking, the vibrations on shipboard, the handling in America-all grave dangers...