Word: sicilianism
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Totems of Status. The book's hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, is a decent sort who loves his wife, has two teen-aged children and seems affably adjusted to failure. He clerks in a grocery store that he once owned for a Sicilian-born boss named Marullo. However, Ethan is haunted by totems of past status. The sleepy Long Island port of New Baytown in which he lives was once virtually the fief of his whaling-captain forebears. He carries one such captain's narwhal stick and lives in his great-grandfather's white shiplap house with...
...works, mostly portraits, by Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Jean Honoré Fragonard, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. In money terms, the prize of the lot was one of the three Rembrandts: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Commissioned in 1653 by a Sicilian nobleman named Don Antonio Ruffo, it was one of the finest masterpieces in any private collection...
...Vengeance! (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Drama about the last days of a Sicilian bandit. With Ben Gazzara, Sal Mineo...
Hands of God. A Sicilian ear-nose-throat specialist named Guido Guida (pronounced Gweeda) got the idea for CIRM in 1935 when he met a sick-looking sailor friend in his native port of Trapani. "I came down with bronchopneumonia en route from New York to Genoa," he explained. "Who cured you?" Guida asked...
...center's first problem is winning the people's trust. Sicilians are not apathetic, Dolci insists, or if they are, one has to define their kind of apathy: "they suffer like all human beings, and know that they are suffering, but they do not believe that change is possible." In one village, an agriculturist came and persuaded some of the less suspicious farmers to let him use a few worn-out fields for demonstration plots. He grew vegetables and fruit, instead of the Sicilian grain. "The first year, the people thought he was crazy, but then they saw his yields...