Word: tuscan
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...PROGRESSIVIST GOVERNMENT." Correspondent Stevens cut in: "What about evolution in Italy since you had your republican revolution?" At this point, wrote Stevens, "the President pensively removed the heavy tortoise-shell glasses that usually hide his expression, and smiled a sly Tuscan smile (every Tuscan has some Machiavelli in him and Signor Gronchi rather more than his share). 'I was the first to advocate a so-called opening to the left,' he answered, 'and I'm still in favor...
WHAT may be the West's oldest painting of the Madonna has been rediscovered in Rome's Church of Santa Francesca Romana. An expert restorer named Pico Cellini found the panel (right) under a 13th century Tuscan canvas of the same subject, which he had been commissioned to clean...
sings moving, melodious recitatives. Other standouts: some impressive liturgical choruses, a bawling jukebox sequence, and a sweet trio of Tuscan songs artfully written in an improvisatory manner...
...Premier Alcide de Gasperi, 73, now the party's secretary general, or Premier Mario Scelba, who has held the government together since February. It was skillful Politico Amintore Fanfani, 46, who heads a left-of-center Demo-Christian faction called Democratic Initiative. A short, stocky Tuscan, an ex-professor of economics, Fanfani was successively a Minister of Labor, Agriculture and Interior, and he knows the government like the back of his hand. Last winter he tried and failed to form a government as Premier. Since then, his Democratic Initiative has been gaining strength in high party councils...
...Rome bureau's tutor is Giorgio Vanucci, who learned his English in Allied prison camps during the war. He speaks pure Tuscan, has little tolerance for Anglicized Italian or the intrusion of Roman dialect. Occasionally his uncompromising stand on pronunciation produces mutinous rumblings among his TIME students...