Word: sicilianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montagna, it reported, was the son of poor Sicilian parents, spent the '30s shuttling between Rome and Sicily and being charged with various offenses ranging from passing bad checks to printing cards identifying himself falsely as a lawyer or accountant. He always got off without a day in jail. By 1940 he had settled in Rome with the means and habits of a multimillionaire. During Mussolini days he had a house "where he frequently invited women of doubtful morality, with the apparent aim of satisfying the libidinous desires of many high-ranking personalities." With the German occupation, his guests...
...their ties with the Vatican, but that is not enough for Don Sturzo; he objects to any relationship at all. Last week Don Luigi paid a rare visit to the Senate, where he has a lifetime seat, to speak for Mario Scelba, whom Don Luigi had taken off a Sicilian share farm, educated and launched into Italian politics. Weak and chilled by the drafts in the big Senate chamber, the old priest asked for a blanket to warm him: "If you don't want me to die, you had better give me at least a blanket." Even with...
...small mountain village of Mussomeii, 47 miles from Scelba's Sicilian birthplace, 900 threadbare townspeople gathered to demonstrate against a new $8-a-year water tax. Egged on by agitators, the crowd tried to storm the town hall; the police, ordered not to use firearms, tossed tear-gas bombs. Mistaking the missiles for hand grenades, the crowd stampeded into a blind alley. In the crush, three women and a boy were trampled to death. The Reds had the martyrs they wanted. They quickly ordered a "National Demonstration of Mourning and Protest," a series of leapfrog strikes in the north...
Prizewinner Venturi, 35, a specialist in murals, submitted a plan for a "magic quadrangle"-a court enclosed by a wall of varying heights on which would be colored mosaics representing scenes and characters from the Pinocchio story. Sicilian-born Sculptor Greco's entry was a tall semi-abstraction showing the Good Fairy pulling Pinocchio from a tree trunk with a great bird hovering above them. When cast in bronze, Greco's figure will stand a little away from Venturi's magic quadrangle on the grounds of Collodi's stateliest 18th century villa...
...books by Giovanni Verga, an Italian writer who died in 1922, still contained lessons for any fiction writer. The House by the Medlar Tree and Little Novels of Sicily were powerful stories about Sicilian peasants whose harshly tragic existence could not destroy their stubborn dignity. Another famed Italian brought out his first novel in eleven years; A Handful of Blackberries proved that ex-Communist Ignazio Silone knows where the rot of Communism lies and still has enough of his old novelist's skill to expose...