Word: neapolitan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best of times, Neapolitans are looked down on by Northern Italians as lazy and unwashed ("Africa starts at Naples" is a prejudicial commonplace). Since the epidemic began, Neapolitans have been treated with all the warmth and feeling usually accorded lepers. In San Remo recently, a Neapolitan family was turned away from a hotel when 100 other guests threatened to check out en masse. Most mortifying of all, the Genoa soccer team forfeited an Italian championship match rather than play in infected Naples...
Such devotional paintings as survive are poor-routine ecclesiastical art, whose only interest is that its Sacred Hearts and puffy cherubs were done by Japanese, not Neapolitan hacks. But in its genre scenes, Namban art excelled. It seems that the 16th and 17th century artists were better observers than their 19th century successors. Hiroshige's American Woman on Horseback in the Snow, in Philadelphia, is the vaguest generalization probably based on a garbled story he had heard about Red Indian squaws; its charm is inaccuracy...
...been trying to down-play the celebration. Among other things, he has persuaded the congregation to refrain from roaring its approval when the liquid bubbles. But recently, a new encyclopedia labeled the San Gennaro spectacle a "residue of paganized Christianity which the church has not managed to remove from Neapolitan usage...
...however, the beautiful people last week showed keen interest in some of the Olympic competition, especially the dressage qualification in horseback riding at the exclusive Riem Riding Academy, and trap and skeet shooting on the elegant Hockbruck course. The man who took home gold that he hardly needed was Neapolitan Hosteler Angelo Scalzone. The impeccable socialite was mobbed by his countrymen and unfashionably tossed into the air. This week the attention of Munich Munich?and the world?will focus on the track and field events. Here the U.S., which was universally conceded supremacy in swimming before the Games began, will...
Librettist John Gay (of Beggar's Opera fame) drew upon an ancient Neapolitan myth: in the jealousy of the evil giant Polyphemus drives him to kill Acts, beloved shepherd of the goddess Galatea. Handel's occasionally inspired setting of the text reaches a high-point in the opening of Act Two. This chorus is beautiful and clever, true baroque artifice in a humorous double fugue...