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...Danilo Dolci is a Christian with deceptively simple ideas about living his faith. Last winter, noticing the bad condition of the roads near the town of Partinico and the great numbers of unemployed in the town itself Dolci decided to kill two bad birds with one stone. He gathered together some 200 of the unemployed fishermen and farmhands and went to work on the roads. They would work without pay, he said, in the hope that the government would later reward them. When cops objected to this unauthorized labor, Danilo Dolci refused to stop and was clapped into jail. Last...
...Bell. Last week, after almost two months in prison, Danilo Dolci was dragged, in chains, into the large hall of Palermo's Lo Steri to stand trial for his illicit road-repairing...
...years ago Danilo Dolci decided to give up studying architecture and do something practical about the poor in Italy. He went back to Sicily's bleak, bandit-ridden "Triangle of Hunger," where he had lived as a boy. There, in the fishing village of Trappeto, with his own meager savings and a few small contributions from outside, he put up a collection of shacks and shanties which he called "the Hamlet of God" to provide shelter for the area's neediest cases. He married an impoverished widow with five children; together they adopted five more childen...
Instead, the authorities sent truckloads of carabinieri out to stop the work and haul Danilo Dolci off to jail. There, charged with "subversive agitation," he languished last week awaiting trial amid cries of protest in press and parliament. The Communists of course tried to claim his cause as theirs. But, said Italy's highly influential newspaper, Corriere della Sera, though Dolci's social ideas might be a "bit oversimplified," they are undoubtedly Christian-"the duty of all to help personally those who suffer...
...Merry Widow (MGM) is the fourth Hollywood version of the famed old (1905) Franz Lehar operetta.* This time Lana Turner is the wealthy Widow Radek from Hoboken, and Fernando Lamas is Count Danilo of Marshovia, who is assigned to marry her in order to save his country from bankruptcy, an act of cold-blooded patriotism that is complicated by hot-blooded love...