Word: eboli
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...tone Rosi struck before, in the notable Christ Stopped at Eboli two years ago, which also contrasted the timeless virtues of peasant life with the murderous meaninglessness of modern intellectual and ideological bustle. He was not then, and he is not now, soft-headed in his appreciation of the simple life. Nor is he ever less than humane and fair-minded in presenting the torments of the bedeviled worldly. Indeed, he strikes one as being among the world's most scrupulous directors, a man whose instinct for the play of light and the unobtrusively correct camera...
...years. The first shock, which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, hit in the early evening as most of the country was sitting down to Sunday supper. Thirty-three smaller tremors followed during the night, ranging in intensity from 3.5 to 4.5 (see SCIENCE). From its epicenter at Eboli, near Salerno, the terremoto radiated its destruction through the regions of Campania and Basilicata, a rugged belt of parsimonious countryside between the Apennines and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the ankle of the Italian boot. Though it struck the major cities in its path, the quake concentrated with cruel efficiency on impoverished...
...EBOLI...
Exiled from Rome in 1935 by Mussolini's Fascists, Carlo Levi, poet, painter, doctor and political dissident, was sent to a mountain village in Lucania in southern Italy. The book he wrote about this experience, Christ Stopped at Eboli, has become a small modern classic. If the film, which has been carved out of a much longer mini-series originally made for Italian television, does not have quite the stature of the book, it is nonetheless sober, virtuous and quietly absorbing...
...book took its title from the last train stop before Lucania, and the last outpost of the civilization that had nurtured Levi. The implication of the title is that despite the primitive religiosity of the culture that lay beyond Eboli, even the Saviour would have stopped before entering a realm "hedged in by custom and sorrow . . . without comfort or solace." What Levi -played with patient sympathy and intelligence by Gian Maria Volonte - finds in Lucania is a drunken priest who is sometimes stoned by the village children, a bombastic mayor with the habit of summoning everyone to the town square...