Word: matteo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usually assigned to play custom-tailored Manhattan executives, O'Neal appears in Stiletto as an elegantly sadistic New York detective named Baker, who is obsessively dedicated to the proposition that Mafioso Emilio Matteo (Wiseman) must be destroyed. O'Neal turns treacherous and vicious with gusto. Wiseman, his eyes dead cold, his face frozen into a mask of menace, looks like a Krafft-Ebing case history...
...Matteo Calacocci was seven years old when he stole $7 from the counter of a North End grocery store. That was in 1927. After being judged "incompetent to stand trial," he was sent to the Lyman School, where he was found "not feeble-minded," "not psychotic," and of "average" intelligence. Transferred to Worcester State Hospital in 1930 and to Boston State in 1933, he attempted to escape in 1935 and was transferred to the maximum security facility at Bridgewater. His records show that he was charged with "bad habits" and with "resisting authority...
...Matteo Calacocci was released in 1963, after 28 years in Bridgewater. And he was lucky. He was lucky, that is, if you compare his case to others who still remain in Bridgewater. The records speak for themselves: J.D., committed as incompetent to stand trial on May 1, 1935, still awaiting trial on a charge of simple assault and battery; W.K., committed February 11, 1951, still waiting to be tried for disturbing the peace; J.M., committed September 14, 1921, still awaiting trial for breaking and entering. These men and hundreds of others in similar positions at Bridgewater and at other state...
Every country is not only a country but also an idea. The idea of China has haunted-and usually eluded-the Western mind ever since travelers set out to find the dream of golden-roofed Cathay. In the Renaissance, Matteo Ricci, the Italian Jesuit who reported on China under the Ming dynasty, praised the country's "orderly management of the entire realm." In the Age of Reason, Leibniz suggested that what Europe needed was Chinese missionaries to teach "goodness." In the Victorian era, the U.S. Protestant missionary Arthur H. Smith was shocked by China's "indifference to suffering...
...Italian Matteo Bandello, who himself had not invented the tale but had merely written it down. No one knows now, and it is a dreadful thought, but there may actually have been an unfortunate duchess of Amalfi...