Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breakfast (after five police and customs visits) and the day light of a free country came in Venice. An Italian attendant cleaned up my compartment, clucked disapprovingly over its shortcomings. The dining-car tables were covered with gleaming napery. Opposite me, two fat Italians argued heatedly about the pleasures and the perils of love letters...
Died. Samuel Putnam, 57, author (Marguerite of Navarre, Marvelous Journey), translator, ex-Communist (he quit in 1944 after eight years of "misguided humility"); of a heart attack; in Lambertville, N.J. Translator of some 50 French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian works, he capped his career last year with an exemplary version of Don Quixote...
...Bicycle Thief. A moving Italian film about a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME...
...master. Craftsman Snowy Weeks of the British Eighth Army. His mission: to plant a few flowers on the grave of Shiner, his late truckmate ("Best bloke ever lived, that's all"). Snowy begins the trip with another British soldier, soon picks up an American deserter, then a beautiful Italian princess, later some university professors and their families. Before Rosie reaches her destination, she appears to have effected a major southward shift of the Italian population...
...going on, Rosie is hijacked by a gang of deserters. The second half of the book is spent largely in playing a rough game of ring-around-Rosie with the hijackers. In the end, Rosie is recovered, Snowy & Co. help bust the deserters' racket, and Snowy and the Italian princess nave made a night of it without class distinctions...