Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From that point on, the situation deteriorated. A hot argument in French, Italian, English and Spanish raged through the corridors. Police were called. Everyone concerned, except the outraged ambassador, who refused to budge on grounds of diplomatic immunity, was hustled off to the local police station. Ambassador Tascherest, convinced that it was a deep-dyed political plot, next day lodged a diplomatic protest with Prime Minister Nehru...
...impotent. In Haiti, they say it is the only thing that will cause Damballah and his wife Ayida Oueddo, a pair of the chief deities of the voodoo pantheon, to put in an appearance at a voodoo session. Chinese bankers have taken to serving it instead of tea, and Italian aristocrats offer it to their guests instead of champagne. Graceful gondolas carry it along the narrow canals of Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills. Bright red signs proclaim its worth in the shadow of the Matterhorn and beneath the blank, unastonished eyes...
Until a better word comes along to denote that process, the dazzled layman can only call it education. Coca-Cola coolly takes hold of Japanese capitalists, Italian intellectuals, German bureaucrats and Bolivian laborers and trains them to do a series of specific jobs in every move and thought the way they are done in America. What is more, the trainees like...
Flecked with bright, buoyant writing, The Wine of Etna remembers Catania's brief occupation by front-line infantrymen as an idyllic pause in the bloody Italian campaign. Author Baron's fast-focusing snapshot technique discovers little depth or complication in his Tommies and Italians, but he manages admirably to capture the highlights of their brief encounter...
Headstrong Men. Many a traveler for many a century, says Author O'Faolain, has savagely refused to accept the fact that the cities of Italy "are not museums." Burgeoning with the exuberance that makes every Italian "a great, bursting bag of life," these cities have from time immemorial massacred their own beauties, thrown out long sprays of indiscriminate architectural splendor and ugliness-"gems set in pig-iron...