Word: italianized
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...School of Arts and Sciences (1872) and the business school (1908). He also presided over the establishment of a college for women, Radcliffe (1894), originally known mainly as "the Annex." He recruited a brilliant faculty, not only notable lecturers like Ralph Waldo Emerson (on philosophy) and William Dean Howells (Italian literature), but younger teachers like Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James and George Santayana. (They had a sense of their own value too. Said Shakespeare Scholar George Lyman Kittredge, after falling off his dais: "At last, I find myself on the level of my audience...
...Cuba, raised in Venezuela, Alonso built a successful singing and acting career in Latin America. But "I didn't want only South and Central America," she says. "I want the whole world." With North America for a start. Her first major U.S. film role was as Robin Williams' Italian girlfriend in 1984's Moscow on the Hudson, for which she took lessons to speak with an Italian accent. Since then, she has made four more movies, including the current Touch and Go and Extreme Prejudice, a Christmas release in which she has her first dramatic role, as a Mexican singer...
...Italian seaside resort city of Rimini, 600,000 youths, sporting San Diego Chargers T shirts, designer jeans and plain work clothes, poured down Via della Fiera. Another tide of the summer fun-and-sun set heading for a beach party? Not quite. They were on their way to the ultramodern auditorium in the new fairgrounds for Mass and then perhaps to a seminar on human rights in Eastern Europe or a lecture by the Archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, on God and the mass media. And if in the midst of all this high seriousness the kids seemed...
...medical evacuation plane was en route to West Germany after picking up 17 injured in Karachi, including six Americans, six Britons, three West Germans, an Italian and an Austrian, U.S. diplomats at the airport said. The wounded will be treated at U.S. military hospitals in West Germany...
...stuff of Picasso's and Laurens's cubist constructions) to the wire and celluloid favored by constructivists, the steel plates and boiler ends forged by Smith, and so on down to rocks, twigs, burlap, twine or even the artist's own dung, which, canned and labeled by the Italian Piero Manzoni in 1961, provided a nastily prophetic comment on fetishism in late modern art. On its road away from statuary, sculpture gained a new depth of cultural resonance, a flexibility of invention, an access to the inner self, a power of aggression and a weird, self-reflexive playfulness...