Word: sicilianism
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...Roman court auction of confiscated goods, Italy's ailing Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti popped up as the only bidder for a treasured souvenir, a ,38-cal. pistol, plus four cartridges (one unfired), the implements of an assassination try made on Togliatti in 1948 by a Sicilian student. Going, going, gone...
...View from the Bridge concerns Eddie Carbone, a kindly longshoreman who has brought up his wife's orphan niece (Gloria Marlowe) with his own family. All goes well until he takes into his home two Sicilian cousins who have entered the U.S. illegally. The niece and one of the cousins (Richard Davalos)-a blond youth who likes to sing and cook-fall in love. Eddie's intense, unrealized sexual feeling for the niece drives him to jealous rancors. He taunts the girl that the boy seeks marriage only as a way of gaining citizenship; he tries to make...
With suggestions of ancient Greece in Boris Aronson's fine setting, with the neighborhood lawyer (J. Carrol Naish) acting as Greek chorus and talking poetically of the Greek and Sicilian past, A View plainly seeks to evoke the drama's great first home of guilty passion and fatal ignorance. But the play, in all this, only emphasizes how little its peasant psychology and hot Sicilian natures have in common with highborn Greek tragedy. Only now and then does there jut up the fated blundering of life, and the pity of it. Far oftener it seems no Furies...
After 74 years of French rule, its European colony numbers only 230.000, about half of whom are Sicilian, Maltese or Spanish. Its French are mainly Corsicans, who have populated every office building, down to the last post office, bank and tax counter, with fellow islanders, and are demanding that under home rule not only they but their children must be guaranteed government jobs. The Arabs of Tunisia maintain the highest indigenous standard of living in North Africa, with a substantial middle class, a peasantry, and the only real trade-union organization in the Moslem world (which sent a fraternal delegate...
...comes out as a series of blurted phrases overloaded with sarcasm and exclamation points. It all seems as noisy as an Italian kitchen when the pasta has boiled over on the baby. But Novelist Verga tells his story with a superb eye for the beauty and squalor of his Sicilian village-its busybody priest scurrying among the decaying mansions and their decaying inhabitants, its restive peasantry caught up in their inept revolutions...