Word: sicilianism
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...black-&-white simplicity but illuminating. The play has all the book's affirmation, but not enough of its anger-for one thing, because General Marvin is nothing more than a first-act offstage below and never becomes a visible antagonist. Squeezing the whole life of the Sicilian town into Joppolo's office also carries penalties: some things have to be told about rather than shown; so many characters are involved that the many short scenes become jerky at times; and the role of the girl Tina (Margo) is both poorly defined and clumsily thrust into the business atmosphere...
...Sicilian separatists want independence from Italy. Last week Sicilian separatism reached the shooting stage. In Palermo, Italian troops tommy-gunned 2,500 rioting Sicilians, killed 19, wounded 102. In Rome dry, precise British Ambassador Sir Noel Charles conveyed to Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's hard-pressed Government a precise, official message from London: any report that Britain was supporting Sicilian separation was utterly false...
Next day the Palermo shooting continued, casualties increased. The New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews investigated. His judgment: the riots were due in part to economic misery, lack of food. But agents .provocateurs of the powerful Latifondisti (big land owners) had used this misery to promote Sicilian revolt...
Typical of those busily sprouting bulbs into a big business is Tony Cefalu (pronounced sefi-allo), 50, a roly-poly, Sicilian-born ex-tavernkeeper. Like most of the others, Tony is growing the Croft, a white, sturdy, strong-stemmed Easter lily that multiplies at the rate of 150 bulbs from one bulb a season, will grow 20,000 to the acre. Although now well on his way to becoming the Lily King of the North west, Tony almost muffed his chance at the throne...
Noose & Sword. Few people in the past have thought of the law-obsessed Germans as haunted by a terrorist secret society, older and more dreaded than the Sicilian Maffia. The origins of the Feme go back to the year 1200. Ostensibly an arm of the Holy Roman Empire, the Feme really stemmed from pagan traditions. Its extralegal courts were held under mystic linden trees, on open hilltops or beneath great oaks. The paraphernalia included a two-handed sword on which the members swore, and a noose of linden fibers for the victim. The sentence of its secret tribunals was always...