Word: bambini
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...title means "the big calves" in Italian, but it is perhaps most idiomatically translated as "the slobs." The slobs in question are the sons of some middle-class families in a small city in Italy. In body they are full-grown males, but at heart they are just big bambini. Though finished with school, they cannot quite bring themselves to take jobs. Supported by indulgent families, they sleep till noon, spend the rest of the day at the poolroom or on the beach, talking about girls they seldom get or wishing they were somewhere far away. Sometimes, there is nothing...
There were moments of muttering that almost came to open revolt. Once Gianella herself was so upset that she flounced to the back of the podium where she had propped up a doll named Victor, and told Victor: "Bambini! Tutti bambini! [Children! They're all children!]." But by the end of the rehearsal, most of the orchestra was won over. "She was right every time she pulled us up," said a violinist. "She's a genius," said a cellist...
...niff a bit, but it don't smell as bad as . . . those unburied dead rottin' out there in the sun . . . Some of these judies aren't bad lookers." Before the week was out, many of the company had made themselves right at home. They dandled bambini on their knees, staged feasts with their rations and forgot the war for a while...
...Queen Mother Margherita visited Maria Montessori's Casa del Bambini. Italian schoolmasters began to try out her methods. Montessori schools mushroomed throughout Europe and the U.S. As she grew older, the Dottoressa's stout figure, in its academic robes, became a familiar sight in lecture halls all over the world. Students crowded to hear her speak at the University of Rome. Mussolini made her an honorary Fascist, but she objected to the way Fascists tried to "warp youth in their own brutal pattern." In 1933, her schools were closed...
...families were being ruined by gambling debts. Married couples rowed over trifles. The black market's tentacles reached into the top of the Fascist hierarchy, despite fulminations against racketeers and "slackers" by Publisher Roberto Farinacci. Thousands of Romans, terrified by accounts of R.A.F. bombings in Naples, took their bambini into Vatican City, where they crowded together ten to 15 in a room...