Word: sicilianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have heavy interests, during the winter season, in Miami. Apparently, said the committee, "there is a gentleman's agreement . . . not to infringe on the activities of each other." The "adhesive" which holds the two syndicates together, the committee suggested, seriously if a little tentatively, is the Mafia. the Sicilian secret society specializing in bootlegging, narcotic smuggling and "Black Hand" extortion. Presiding over both syndicates as an arbitrator by remote control, said the committee, is Mafia Chief Charles ("Lucky"') Luciano in Italy...
Died. Joseph Di Giorgio, 76, a Sicilian immigrant who became a millionaire with his Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., one of the biggest fruit & vegetable empires in the U.S. (20,000 acres in Florida and California); of a heart attack; in Di Giorgio Calif...
...Rose Tattoo (by Tennessee Williams; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is laid, like most Tennessee Williams plays, in the South-in a village on the Gulf Coast. But its characters are rowdy Sicilian immigrants, and its tenor is life-loving and affirmative. Playwright Williams has cast off unnaturalism for primitivism, neurosis for fulfillment, the genteel nymphomaniac for the savage one-man woman. But though he has reversed his basic theme, introduced some livelier and trashier tunes, trilled a bit less and banged more, Williams has never seemed so blatantly himself...
...overhaul job, General Manager Rudolf Bing had turned to the Met's own staff of directors and set designers. Staff Director Hans Busch planned to give "Cav," a turbulent little tragedy of Sicilian chivalry, a thoroughly realistic treatment. He slipped up on some details. Sample: when cuckolded Alfio challenged swaggering Seducer Turiddu, Alfio stood well back, out of all possible harm's way, looking considerably more foolish than furious. But despite such incongruities, and the fussy set and cluttered stage that offended Critic Downes, the singing (notably by Tenor Richard Tucker and Soprano Zinka Milanov) almost turned Cavalleria...
Roused to a mood of political insurrection after one of the noisiest and dirtiest campaigns in decades, New York City elected the first independent mayor* in the history of its five boroughs: beaming, Sicilian-born Acting Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri, 50. His margin was almost a quarter of a million votes. Tammany Hall's hand-picked Judge Ferdinand Pecora was second, Republican Edward Corsi third...