Word: sicilianism
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...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...
...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...