Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...stars twinkled out a little starstruck themselves to meet the town's newest celebrity: famed Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, a sometime Alfredo, who is about to take four months out of a schedule almost as fully packed as he is to star in Yes, Giorgio, a comedy about an Italian singer who falls in love with an American woman. Carol Burnett produced paper and pen for his autograph, Carroll O'Connor emerged from his Archie Bunker to demonstrate a sensitive knowledge of opera, and Grant, using the word that any Cary impersonator can deliver, told Pavarotti the film would...
...duty until age 27. In addition, every country excuses those facing particular hardships. Spain exempts sons supporting widowed mothers, and The Netherlands excludes those who already have had two or more brothers in uniform. Men can escape induction for reasons of conscience, but they must perform socially useful tasks. Italian conscientious objectors, for example, may serve in the medical corps or work in a civilian defense plant. Such compassion, however, is unknown in Switzerland, where men continue to drill every year in the standing militia. The " Swiss jail all who balk at military service and impose a special exemption...
...Italian government cut its Olympic squad by nearly half after the nation's Olympic committee ignored the government's boycott recommendation and voted to go. The mechanism: it banned police and soldiers from Moscow competition and refused to alter exam schedules for student-athletes, who must now decide whether a trip to Moscow is worth losing a year's credit at their universities...
...power of the Yankees who dominated Old Cambridge--Brattle St. and Harvard Square. The speculators worried the Yankees, but it was another, larger migration that absolutely horrified them--the Irish, who were to end once and for all the upper-crust domination of Cambridge politics. Alfred E. Vellucci, an Italian neighborhood politician, describes the arrival of the Irish with a grand cry of delight. "Yeaaaaahh for the Irish. They came pouring in like crazy. The ships were docking in Boston and they were coming in droves, arriving by the thousands between 1850 and 1900." At first, Vellucci says, the Yankees...
...depression of 1873, workers rioted in some cities over the immigrants who were stealing their jobs from them. Americans, so idealistically generous and expansive in their official mythology, have generally greeted foreigners with fear and loathing. A New York newspaper editorial in the late 19th century commented on the Italian influx: "The bars are down. The dam is washed away. The sewer is choked. The scum of immigration is viscerating upon our shores." Franklin Roosevelt held rigidly to his immigrant quotas all through the '30s, when Europe's Jews were desperately seeking refuge from Hitler. The American failure...