Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...though, Congress has moved cautiously against foreign banks. With a few notable exceptions like Italian Financier Michele Sindona, whose $45 million fraud drove New York's Franklin National Bank into bankruptcy in 1974, overseas investors have generally poured needed capital into American banks and made them stronger. Concedes Citibank Chairman Walter Wriston: "The consumer benefits from all this new competition." Moreover, an attack on foreign banks here could provoke retaliation against their American counterparts in Europe and Japan. While foreigners hold $211 billion in U.S. banking assets, Americans control $361 billion overseas...
...ITALIAN FOLKTALES Selected and Retold by Italo Calvino Translated by George Martin; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 763 pages...
Once upon a time there was a writer named Italo Calvino. Although he liked making up stories, he also wanted to read older ones in his own language. "Was there an Italian equivalent of the Brothers Grimm?" he wondered one day. No answer came. So he set out on a quest. He spent two years studying obscure texts and dusty monographs, rescuing long-forgotten tales from all the regions of his native land. Finally, he ended his labors and brought forth a magic book...
...Italian Folktales is assuredly that, and a classic to boot. By making these 200 stories accessible to the general reader, Calvino, 56, has considerably enriched the world's supply of a seriously depleted commodity, oral history. Tales passed on through the centuries by word of mouth tell much more than their plots. In their diversity, they suggest the variety of dreams, the possible mutations of consciousness and climates. Their frequent similarities point teasingly in the opposite direction, toward some Ur tale that generated all the others, a narrative vast and potent enough to enclose the world. Writes Calvino: "Taken...
Cambridge's Italian community has grown and changed; while it has fit in well with the city, it has not assimilated to the point of losing all traces of its culture