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NONFICTION 1. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (2) 2. Markings, Hammarskjold (1) 3. The Founding Father, Whalen (5) 4. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII (3) 5. Queen Victoria, Longford (4) 6. The Italians, Barzini (7) 7. How to Be a Jewish Mother, Greenburg (6) 8. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre 9. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (9) 10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...
...Italians, Barzini...
...Henceforth, not only the prosperity of the Italians is in danger but their very freedom," fumed Bestselling Author (and Deputy) Luigi Barzini in the weekly L'Europeo last week. He was denouncing not a new law but an institution that has been tightening its hold on Italian life for centuries: the nation's cumbersome bureaucracy...
Adopting the Habsburgs. Of course, many other nations suffer from crawling bureaucracy, but Italy's problem is on the scale of Michelangelo's David or the triumphal march in Aïda. Barzini traces its origins back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when together with so many other of Italian society's "baroque" characteristics, it was imported by Italy's hated Spanish Habsburg rulers, and then adopted and glorified by the natives. Nowadays most Italians consider the archvillains to be the bureaucrats themselves. They have come to be known as i burosauri, a name derived...
...Italians, Barzini...