Word: sicilianism
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...occupation of Sicily, Nino Cottone was respected partly for his wealth and partly for his excellent connections in the Demo-Christian Party. But the foundation of Nino's respectability was the fact that he was boss of the "Mafia of the Gardens"-the section of the world-famous Sicilian criminal syndicate that "protects" Palermo's fruit marketmen and citrus growers...
...along the driveway by two streams of machine-gun bullets. As his family and friends poured out of their houses, Nino painfully lifted up his bullet-ridden body and stumbled to the threshold of his villa, where, leaning against the door, he died on his feet as a good Sicilian should...
...five years since he wrested control of the Florence city government from the Communists, Sicilian-born Giorgio La Pira has conscientiously followed this simple approach to public problems and private funds. With a cheerful disregard for legality, the onetime professor of Roman law has seized bankrupt factories to prevent dismissal of their employees, requisitioned private dwellings to house the poor and financed public works so expensive that they have exhausted Florence's legal borrowing power until the year...
...performance was an important step toward the recovery of an ailing man whom Arturo Toscanini once called "the greatest musical find of this century." Sicilian-born Conductor Ferrara, 45, guest-conducted the major orchestras of Italy in the '30s and early '40s, became his country's most famed conductor after Toscanini himself. But one day in 1940, while conducting Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, Ferrara suddenly stiffened and crashed backwards off the podium in a dead faint. In the next several years he fainted so regularly on the podium that he became known throughout Italy...
Most of the intensity of the film, which is based closely on the 1951 Broadway play, is provided by a transplanted Sicilian woman, Serafina Delle Rose. After the death of her smuggler husband, she locks herself up in her Gulf Coast shack and spends three years worshipping his memory and his ashes, which she keeps in an urn in the living room. But three years is a long wait for a woman of Sicilian temperament, and the end of her seclusion is in sight when she finds out that her lamented spouse had been keeping other company. So when...