Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month, when no cyclists from six countries (France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland) gathered at the Paris start, 36-year-old Italian Veteran Gino Bartali was the obvious favorite. The Italian team captain, he had won in 1948, placed second a year ago. Italian strategy called for his younger teammates to carry the burden of the sprints, while Bartali saved, his sinewy legs for the rugged climbing over the Pyrenees and Alps...
...topnotch Siena quintet (now known as the Quintette Chigiana), the choirmaster of Siena's newly organized town choir, the visiting artists who perform each winter in the Chigi-underwritten concert season. Each fall, moreover, the count backs Siena's big' week-long festival of Italian music...
...Stanley Marcus, boss of Dallas' $22-million-a-year Neiman-Marcus specialty store, has scored many a scoop in the fashion business. Last year Neiman-Marcus rang up a tidy $800,000 profit by supplying wives & daughters of well-heeled Texans with hand-knit French girdles at $79.50, Italian silk handmade nightgowns with Trapunto embroidery at $150 and Aleutian mink coats...
...Adolescents, by Alberto Moravia. Two Italian boys in the perils of puberty. Avoiding the perils of bathos, Author Moravia (Woman of Rome) keeps his storytelling clear and dry (TIME, July...
...postwar U.S. boom in Italian fiction, 42-year-old Alberto Moravia has already won a bright place for himself with The Woman of Rome (TIME, Nov. 21). The two long stories in Two Adolescents add to his shine. In each of them Author Moravia tackles one of writing's trickiest problems, telling what happens to a boy in the transition between childhood and manhood. Writers describing this haunting, tragicomic change of life too often bog down in self-pity and autobiography. But Moravia has pared away all egocentric mush from these two hardheaded stories. They have the clarity...