Word: giorgio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian Communist official invited to lecture at Harvard and other American universities is a flagrant violation of academic freedom. The department's invocation of a Joe McCarthy era law forbidding foreign communists entry into the United States unless they are granted an ineligibility waiver, as justification for not giving Giorgio Napolitano a visa, is an example of the purest form of bureaucratic nonsense. Congess should certainly repeal the law in question, since denying communists entry into this country on the grounds that they represent a danger to the national interest does nothing to insure national security. But, more importantly...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, sent off an invitation letter, co-signed by three non-Harvard Italy experts, to Giorgio Napolitano, the cultural head of the Italian Communist Party, and all was set for a two-week visit. Or so it seemed...
...Italian prints span styles from the ex-Futurist Carlo Carra's surprisingly static "The Acrobats," to the Surrealis precursor Giorgio de Chirico, who by 1921 had also reverted to a more academic style. De Chirico had switched from his earlier eerie, suspended space and stifled-emotion realism to a less exciting neoclassicism...
Hoping for the breakthrough that might eventually put them in power, some Communist Party leaders, meanwhile, are quietly pressing the idea of power-sharing on their own. "Even today the Italian Parliament just doesn't work unless there is prior agreement between us and the Christian Democrats," says Giorgio Amendola, the Communists' No. 2 man. "The Christian Democrats would like to leave it that way, and we would be willing too-if it worked. But it doesn't. So what there could be is some more visible form of cooperation, such as regular consultations. We want...
...reported..."; "in a personal interview, one worker said..."; "...three workers who had filed suit against Cesar reported..."; "...other workers reported..."; "...one worker said..."; "...many farmworkers also complained..."; "...one woman who had worked 16 years in the fields described..."; "one worker who showed his income tax returns to a reporter..."; "Giorgio Aglipay ["a farmworker"]...reported..."; "...one farmworker told Dr. Paul Gaston..."; "one grape picker explained..." I have one question: why is the Crimson publishing this sort of crap? Kathleen Finn Teaching Fellow, Department of Psychology and Social Relations