Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recent weeks have brought reminders that the enemy is vulnerable. Vladimir Clementis, a dedicated Communist since his youth and Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia only two years ago, fled from Prague. Two Italian Communist Deputies broke from the party. Hundreds followed them on the simple issue of the defense of Italy if Russia attacked their country. This question has been present since 1945; the pressure of crisis brought it home, thereby split Red ranks...
...most pressing weakness. Though national arsenals produce plenty of machine guns, Mauser rifles and revolvers, they are tooled to turn out only about a dozen 60-mm. and 105-mm. guns a month. For heavy artillery, the army relies on a jumble of obsolete German, French and Italian guns; finding shells to fit the odd-sized barrels is a head-splitting problem...
...dean of Italian painters takes a dim view of modern art, even when it is" his own. Giorgio de Chirico, 63, would like to be known for the neoclassical nudes and warriors, done in lush, candy-box style, which he paints today. Instead, he is famed for the works of his youth: surrealistic cityscapes laced with long shadows. Such pictures simply embarrass De Chirico nowadays. Last week his embarrassment was acute...
...Angeles collector had bought a signed and certified early De Chirico in Milan, and then asked the artist to authenticate it. Cried De Chirico: Fake! The collector promptly took his canvas, An Italian Square, to court...
Instead of simply staying away from The Miracle (like their Italian brethren), U.S. Catholics tried to keep other people from seeing it, and (as outraged citizens as well as deeply offended Christians) shouted, "There ought...