Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of a topflight postwar Italian sculptor...
Since the war, Italy has been proud of its bumper crop of novelists, painters and sculptors. Considering the lively output,* Italians have a right to be. Last week, as a high point in Venice's 13th International Festival of Contemporary Music, Italians listened with expectation to the latest work of three of Italy's younger generation of composers. If festivalgoers thought they would find any one strong new current, they were disappointed. The so-called "Roman Group" in modern Italian music seemed to have as many directions as it had composers...
Although their music didn't help festivalgoers determine where Italian music might be heading, the three composers got a hearty welcome. The critic of the conservative Corriere delta Sera labeled Communist Zafred "a more brilliant and enthusiastic Shostakovich, more harmonious and proportioned and . . . more sincere." Turchi's Concerto was "a jewel of balance, reserve and nobility." Peragallo's twelve-tone experiments were "more intelligible and ear pleasing" than most such attempts...
...Antonio Filarete completed the massive central doors of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome more than five centuries ago. His bronze doors were flanked, somewhat incongruously, by plain oak ones-and have been ever since. Last week the Vatican got around to the flanking doors, commissioned two traditionalist Italian sculptors named Alfredo Biagini and Venanzo Crocetti to replace them with bronze bas-reliefs celebrating the history of the church. Critics mildly approved the Vatican's conservative choices, raised a chorus of hurrahs when they learned that it had also commissioned Giacomo Manzu, a controversial modern...
Imminence of Death. Brave Company is the story of a New Zealand infantry outfit on the Italian mountain front. Mostly it is about a single platoon, and it concentrates on a single squad. It is written by a New Zealand schoolteacher who fought in the infantry for three years, was wounded and commissioned on the battlefield. He writes about his bruised, battle-numbed foot soldiers with enormous compassion and an understanding that shades into love...