Word: sicilianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 74 years of French rule, its European colony numbers only 230.000, about half of whom are Sicilian, Maltese or Spanish. Its French are mainly Corsicans, who have populated every office building, down to the last post office, bank and tax counter, with fellow islanders, and are demanding that under home rule not only they but their children must be guaranteed government jobs. The Arabs of Tunisia maintain the highest indigenous standard of living in North Africa, with a substantial middle class, a peasantry, and the only real trade-union organization in the Moslem world (which sent a fraternal delegate...
...known outside Italy for a minor work-his story Cavalleria Rusticana, on which the libretto for Mascagni's opera was based-Author Verga ranks second only to Manzoni among Italian novelists. Born in Sicily in 1840, he planned as his major work a kind of Comedie Humaine of Sicilian life of which Gesualdo is the second installment (the first: The House by the Medlar Tree -TIME...
...comes out as a series of blurted phrases overloaded with sarcasm and exclamation points. It all seems as noisy as an Italian kitchen when the pasta has boiled over on the baby. But Novelist Verga tells his story with a superb eye for the beauty and squalor of his Sicilian village-its busybody priest scurrying among the decaying mansions and their decaying inhabitants, its restive peasantry caught up in their inept revolutions...
...from the Milk Route. Roy Campanella has been nurturing that dream ever since he was 15, when he started playing baseball for pay in a North Phil adelphia neighborhood known as Nicetown, where he was born 34 years ago. From his Sicilian father, piano-legged Roy inherited his proportions and a capacity for enjoying hard work. While he supported a wife and five hungry kids on the pro ceeds of a vegetable wagon. John Cam panella still managed to save enough cash to chip in with his brothers and open a chain of neighborhood groceries. From his Negro mother...
...cream smothered in Anheuser-Busch corn syrup. Anheuser-Busch also spends $550,000 annually breeding Clydesdale draft horses; Gus Busch sends them around the U.S. hitched to red Budweiser wagons, promoting beer in dry farm areas where Prohibition sentiment is still strong. His latest plan: to cross tiny Sicilian donkeys with even tinier Shetland ponies, thus develop the world's smallest mules to plug a 7-oz. "ladies'-size" Budweiser bottle...