Word: sicilianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mouse is Sicilian Mario Scelba. A lawyer and Popular Party worker before the war, he has emerged as the strongest anti-Communist force in Premier Alcide de Gasperi's coalition cabinet. He has rebuilt Italy's police into a wellarmed, well-disciplined force nearly a quarter-million strong; his famed celere, or motorized police, whizz through Italian cities in jeeps, cracking down relentlessly on Communist street brawlers. To Communists, he is Public Enemy Numero...
...Scelba drove on serenely. At Carpi, scene of repeated Red-led strikes, he got out and walked through the market place, alone and unprotected. When the crowd recognized his balding head and his hooked Sicilian nose, some people sneered, but most, admiring his guts, applauded. When Scelba's police escort finally caught up with him and asked anxiously whether they had better clear the square, Scelba just laughed and walked on, still alone...
Difficult Years. Director Luigi (To Live in Peace) Zampa explores the effects of Fascism's last ten years on a simple Sicilian family (TIME...
Difficult Years. Director Luigi (To Live in Peace) Zampa explores the effects of Fascism's last ten years on a simple Sicilian family (TIME...
Difficult Years. Director Luigi (To Live in Peace) Zampa explores the effects of Fascism's last ten years on a simple Sicilian family (TIME...