Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British foreign policy and modern Italian literature came up for discussion last night in Lamont by two foreign students at the Summer School. The forum was one in a weekly series conducted by the Foreign Students Seminar...
Norman Barlow, a veteran of Dunkirk and the Italian campaigns, and a graduate of Kings College and the Institute of Slavonic Studies, was primarily concerned with what he termed "the pragmatic aspects" of Britain's foreign policy...
...Vatican thought it had a pretty good case: besides their monthly salary of 41,000 lire ($50), the guards get free quarters, uniforms, food, cigarettes and beer. That makes them better off financially than the average Italian civil servant. Also, unlike the Papal Gendarmes, who maintain order inside Vatican City, they have no police duties.* To avoid discontent, however, the Vatican released the 16 complaining recruits from the terms of their enlistment contracts. It is also giving thought to increasing the allowances of the guards who remain...
This adaptation does tolerably well by Actor Pinza but it makes hash of Playwright Sturges' comedy. The original play told a simple, incongruously funny story about a young and fairly innocent Southern girl who tries to seduce a rakish Italian opera star; he turns out to be such a sentimentalist that he marries her. The film all but smothers the idea with plot complications, cooking up elaborate reasons for the marriage-in name only-to come first, so that the pair can pursue their dalliance and yet stay strictly honorable under the technical rules of the cinema code. Irrelevantly...
...warm Italian sun and scene stir up fresh trouble. Karen promptly finds a lean, bronzed soldier-adventurer type who has modeled himself on T. E. Lawrence. They run off together, but Karen soon cloys his palate. Long-suffering Max takes her back again...