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...Angelo is a blond four-year-old mulatto--a present from an American G.I. to an Italian married woman. The G.I. is killed during the war and the mother dies in childbirth. Matteo, the woman's husband, returns after five years in jail to find himself the negro child's legal father...
Matteo's initial reaction to Angelo is disgust and repulsion; he tries to prove that his wife committed adultery, and that therefore he is not legally responsible for the child. But an old cynical lawyer tells him that before God the mulatto is his equal, and before...
Gradually Matteo's attitude towards the mulatto changes. When he sees the other boys picking on Angelo, he finds himself asking some embarrassing questions. He wonders why this mulatto, who cries like any other white child, is not their equal. Matteo is humbled by Angelo's simple faith in God and in the goodness of man. His initial repulsion becomes pity and--almost--love...
...Texas Newspaper Publisher Houston (the San Angelo Standard-Times) Harte and TIME Cover Artist Guy Rowe went a $5,000 Christopher Award for their text and drawings for the Roman Catholic edition of Old Testament stories, In Our Image...
...Angelo Patri's syndicated column was promptly dropped by the Providence, R.I. Journal-Bulletin, even though Patri himself had withdrawn his endorsement and returned the check he had received...