Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring, France's René Pleven, then Premier, offered a compromise: a European army of which German contingents larger than "combat teams" could be a part. For five months French, West German, Italian, Belgian and Luxembourg delegates (the British, Dutch and Scandinavians hung back) have been meeting in Paris, trying to transform the Pleven plan into reality...
...good batting eye; he likes to swing for a home run every time, and when he has to bunt (as in a soft passage), some listeners have an uneasy feeling that he is trying to punch the ball out of the park. He overworks the Caruso sob. His Italian is rough. He tends to swallow his notes. His brilliant tone is often "white," i.e., lacking resonance. Worst of all, from a singer's point of view, he is forcing his voice, especially in the abandon with which he hurls himself into high notes at top volume. Lanza...
Three Steps North (W. Lee Wilder; United Artists) wastes not only up & coming Lloyd Bridges and its Italian backgrounds and supporting cast (Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi), but also a promising melodramatic idea. Bridges is an ex-G.I. who has served time for black-marketeering and goes back to dig up his loot. The site is a G.I. cemetery, and the nearby town is full of schemers trying to trip Bridges up for reasons of their own. They thicken the plot with so much intrigue that it curdles into the kind of confusion best followed with a score card listing...
Mauro Calamandrei, a graduate of the University of Florence, who worked with the Italian underground during the war, stressed the significance of Italy's contemporary writers, in what he termed "a wonderful artistic revival, almost a new Renaissance...
...writers of the last fifteen years, Calamandrei stated, do not have the indifference to social problems which characterized Italian writers in the earlier part of the century. He deplored the fact that these writers, in the last few years, have been overcome by "a deep sense of despair." Nevertheless, he said, it is a healthy sign that "this new literature is concerned with the changing social situation in Italy...