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...China is Near is carefully measured by understatement and economy. Following the outline of classical comedy, humor grows from the naivete of individual characters. Camillo, the youngest and most naive, concludes that the revolution will be served by the death of his innocence. He arranges sex with a girl who goes into a hypnotic trance so complete that "her partners may be exchanged without her knowing it: a perfect experimental laboratory...
...Camillo's false asceticism contrasts with Vittorio's irrepairably compromised humanitarianism, but no resolution is attempted...
Luckily for Latin America (and for Christianity), there are nascent movements of revolutionary and reform clergy. Some read Martin Luther King; some, like Camillo Torres, have died fighting with the guerrillas. In Guatemala there is a fairly liberal clergy movement called COSDEGUA (Conference of Guatemalan Priests). As mild as it seems to be, it is being vigorously suppressed. When I was in the capital, eight of its members were suspended...
Died. Giovanni Guareschi, 60, Italy's most popular political humorist, whose tales of Don Camillo, a village priest forever at swordspoint with his Red mayor, gave readers throughout the world a taste of Communism, Italian style; of a heart attack; in Cervia, Italy. With gentle wit and nimble satire, in five novels, Guareschi illuminated a curiously Italian phenomenon-the Catholic who prays in church but pays his dues to the Party-all to the delight of readers in 16 languages...
...skill at twirling and tossing dough ten feet into the air made Pizza Baker Camillo Calogero a consistent crowd pleaser at a Lynbrook, N.Y., pizzeria. Then, one day last September, his neck was broken in an auto accident; he was no longer able to make the flamboyant motions needed to fling high the pizza dough. The 33-year-old father of three children sued for damages. Rejecting a defense claim that pizza can be simply flattened on a table with the hands, and considering other injuries to Calogero, a twelve-man jury awarded him $335,000. At his old salary...