Word: sicilianism
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Father was a Sicilian from Palermo who had come to London 20 years ago. He was still loyal to his native country, passionately defending its dignity against all challengers. Franco thought him amusingly oldfashioned, but on the whole harmless. He simply belonged to a different era. Patriotism meant nothing to the young people of today. There had been an attempt, some years earlier, to popularize a European an them and a European flag but neither had been taken seriously. People moved freely across national frontiers, there was a common European currency and members of the European Parliament were elected...
...sleeve of his green knit pullover bunches around some unspeakable wound of a hand. The yarn in the shoulder stretches obscenely over his hump. His cheeks quiver with little tics. His lips pout in private arrangements of humor and rage. When he speaks, Elizabethan English seems to acquire a Sicilian accent: Shakespeare out of The Godfather...
...Real-life Latin lovers do not much resemble their ardent movie counterparts. That is the principal conclusion to be drawn from a survey of 1,056 Italian women by Lieta Harrison, a Sicilian writer. Harrison interviewed equal numbers of mothers and their married daughters and found the generations in agreement that "Italian men are disappointing as lovers and overbearing as husbands." One Milanese wife complained that her husband "has no passion," while a Roman wife described her spouse as "uninspiring." More than one-fourth of the wives charged that their husbands had committed adultery-and many of the younger women...
...million people, as a result, 1,000,000 men and women sit on government boards. Many of the boards are political sinecures. Small wonder that their output is at times strangely inadequate. Five years ago, a board was created to expedite housing construction for the victims of a Sicilian earthquake. The board was recently abolished without having built a single home; nevertheless, it somehow spent all of the $344 million that had been appropriated to it. What makes the plethora of presidents so scandalous is that there are all too few technicians working under them. There are, for instance...
...final game that still has him wondering. Frankle played his usual Sicilian defense, but a weird position developed. "As far as I was concerned I was playing on my own after move three," he said...