Word: silvio
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...Silvio Capuana could never forget the poverty of his youth, or the pain and contempt it had brought him in the Apennine village of Contrada, where he was born 60 years ago. Reared in a two-room hovel swarming with flies, brothers and sisters, all as dirty and hungry as himself, he had spent his childhood working long hours in the local wheatfields for a few pennies a day, resenting the shouts of harsh masters and dreaming of a better life. As soon as he was old enough, he fled to seek his fortune in Canada...
Point of Order. In Boston, State Senator Silvio Conte argued for an early end to the session, pointed out that he had not been home in a long time and complained: "We had three children in 24 months, and now we haven't had a birth in eight months and people are beginning to talk about...
...state committee on constitutional law yesterday recommended to the legislature that all bills restricting the actions of "subversive" groups be put off until next year. Senator Silvio O. Conte, chairman of the committee, said this would give the committee time to study the bills thoroughly before reporting them to the legislature...
...ambition is based on nothing but urgent vanity. But when he continuously fails in his writing, Silvio persuades himself that he has "exhausted all my aggressive force in my wife's embrace." He maneuvers bewildered Leda into suggesting that until he finishes his book they should sleep apart...
What follows is predictable, yet always moving. As Silvio loses himself in his literary obsession, Leda becomes bored, is seduced by a commonplace Casanova, Silvio's barber. In a climax of selfdiscovery, Silvio realizes that his wife has been unfaithful, that he is a failure as a writer, and that most of their troubles are his own fault. Humbled, he hopes to patch up his marriage: "To accept my status as a human being ... a decent fellow . . . modestly conscious of his own limitations ... the lover, and the beloved, of a young and beautiful wife...