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Writing in the New York Catholic weekly, the Commonweal, Law Professor Max Ascoli, who fled Mussolini's Italy, called Giannini's paper neoFascist, explained: ". . . Its substantial permanent characteristic is its hatred of democracy, of competitive political parties. . . . Neo-Fascism tries to debase the people into a rabble kept happy and distracted with solaces and carnivals of all types. . . . Neo-Fascism does not need great leaders...
Because of the popularity of such organs as "The Common Man" and "Common Sense" various observers have attempted to analyze the movement to discover whether there are dangerous seeds within. One of the most recent analyses, an article by Max Ascoli in Commonweal, credited the growth of these periodicals to the Italians' desire to give vent to their restlessness now that they are no longer under the thumb of Mussolini...
...present teachings of the Church of Rome. 7. The main reasons for the increase of interest in the Divina Commedia during the past fifty years. 8. The relation of modern scientific discovery to Dante's conception of the divine order of the universe. 9. Dante and Cecco d'Ascoli. 10. A study of the decline of Dante's influence in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 11. Modern traits in Dante. 12. Dante in the anecdotic literature of the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. 13. The influence of Guido Cavalcanti on Dante. 14. A criticism of Torraca's edition...
Married. Ermino Spalla, onetime heavyweight boxing champion of Europe, to Senorita Esmeralda Ascoli; at Rome, amid a crowd of enthusiasts...
...this time. The plan was to send over about the end of October, when the English lacrosse season begins, a team picked from the best players of recent Harvard teams, for a tour of four weeks through England. The arrangement of a schedule was undertaken by Mr. F. D. Ascoli, president of the Oxford University Lacrosse Club, and matches were arranged with Oxford, Cambridge, and Manchester universities, and with eight of the city clubs in various parts of England. The Harvard team was to be finally picked after a week's practice in New York, beginning October...