Word: cottolengo
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...ready for a tragic mask, but his wink is closer to a tic and his grin is spastic. The title story unwinds like an old Vittorio De Sica film in slow motion. A member of the Communist Party, Amerigo Ormea is assigned to be an election watcher at the Cottolengo Hospital for Incurables in Turin. As Amerigo officiously keeps the morons and vegetable cases from being recorded as Christian Democrat votes, Calvino demonstrates ironically that the Catholic Church and the Communist Party may have more in common than either thinks-an "anonymous, administrative grayness" that can crush the spirit...
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